Can success be ethical?
What happens when work and money is related to morality?
Today, I talked to my therapist about the ethics of life.
He pointed out that ethical decisions make up a lot of my choices. giving me an example situation as so:
If my child was running a high fever and I had no money, AND the nearest drugstore was closed with nobody at the counter, what would I do?
Me, I would go running out and look for a new one with someone with the empathy to lend me some painkillers.
Strangely enough, I would not go in and steal some medication. Didn’t even cross my mind.
Perhaps it is because I don’t have the guts to.
Maybe, it’s because I don’t have a child yet, and I don’t know how it feels.
Or maybe, it’s a result of my conscience– one that was drilled into me since childhood.
Any how, making decisions that go against my ethics and values is a hard choice. But I find peace in the fact that I can take responsibility in my actions and choices.
Whenever I find that the results of things in front of me are the outcomes of unethical decisions, it hurts me to a point where I lose respect for those involved. Often times, I find that the most desperate to succeed will make unethical decision. Why is this?
Acting like a good person will not make you a good one. Making selfish decisions and sugarcoating it to make yourself look good– well, people will find out in the end.
I believe in the power of hard work, but progress should never be the result of throwing others under the bus.
Making sacrifices for yourself and your career is inevitable. But sacrificing the happiness of others to veil yourself in a shroud of lies– I believe that things will ultimately find its way around.
After all. Karma’s a bitch.
Seeing so many occasions of people losing their morals just for a moment of success makes me sick.
I wonder what it is.
Is losing all sense of morality something that is necessary for success?
Can these decisions and choices be justified with good results?
Should people do all it takes just to be rich– even at the expense of others?
If I choose to be ambitious, will I become this monster that I loathe so much?
To choose between morality and wealth is a hard question, but there must be a place in between.
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