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To: marcher who wrote (144274)11/21/2018 10:56:14 AM
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Human behavior around ethics gets tricky for sure. There seems to be a big disconnect when viewing micro versus macro behavior or conscious versus unconscious driven behavior or ethics when act versus things we choose not to act upon. So maybe it is not the lizard brain at play here.

True, most people when confronted with a face to face ethical decision with someone they know or with someone the know watching will make a ethical decision. In other words, we help people we know when they ask if it is ethical to do so and we won't actively/consciously try to take advantage them.

But how many people that need help that we don't know are we ignoring everyday without a second thought?

And how many people are we hurting indirectly just going through our daily motions that we don't know?

And how many unethical corporations, governments, bureaucracies, politicians, etc. do we enable with seemingly mundane, neutral, decisions to do some action?

Heck, just buying a head of lettuce at the grocery store is an ethical decision that 99.9% of us never think about. Not to mention passing by a broke down motorist or a homeless person or an emotionally distressed stranger.

So sure maybe we are doing OK on a micro level, but on a macro level we seem to fail miserably...at least judging by the state of most human societies.
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