1. I believe it is more important to be a good person than to perform good acts. Although it is somewhat complicated I think that if you truly are a good person, good acts will follow. However, if you are just doing good acts and your inner self is a bad person sooner or later that inner self will show. That is why I believe that people should still do good acts regardless but to strive in be a better person because the product of a good person is good acts. We as humans all are messed up. We all seem to have several issues and flaws that can deem up not good people, making the bad outweigh the good. However, if we find help to become a better person it can began to transform our behavior all together. This is why I go to church and believe in God, I know that I cannot be good on my own and pour out love on others without him. However, if I allow him to make me a good person good deeds will follow.
2. The ethics of decision making is difficult to find out what is better, because it turns into a what if game. We may never know what affect one has on the other but we can try to follow our choice in the most ethical. The process of making a decision can be important in the overall outcome of a decision. Whether they are thought out thoroughly or not can either benefit a decision or hurt it. An example of this is expelling a student for being accused of plagiarism. If the institute does not investigate during the process but takes the word of somebody unreliable it can lead to horrible implications for the expelled student. However, if an institute does several investigations that are good processes in deciding but somehow violate confidential information that leads to the student being expelled problems can occur as well. In both cases the student was expelled but the processes in the decisions making were both unethical. This leads to my conclusion that It isn’t the end result that matters but whether the process of such a decision was made ethically.
3. One of the major themes of the USA is equality. This means we all have equal meaning in the country, one person is no more important than another whether by race or income. I apply this in my own code of ethics as well. As much as I love my life and want to continue living, I would not be able to bear having somebody else killed for me to live. I do not think I am worth less than anybody else but I do not think I am more important to this world than somebody else. This can get somewhat tricky because if it came down to Hitler and Me being judged I would probably say I am saving more lives by letting him die than saving him. I feel as though due to my beliefs I should be able to be selfless as possible and lay down my life for anyone just as I was taught, because dying for me results in a better place than this earth.