I went to an ethics course and
found emptiness. How can one teach ethics, or learn ethics, when there is no
constant ethical benchmark by which to compare thinking and behavior?
The course should have been
titled, “Adherence to Housing Law”, or “Maintaining Professional Standards As
They Are Currently Required In Property Management.” The course content changes
with each legislative year, it changes as society changes; what is in fashion
today may not be in fashion tomorrow. There is no constant benchmark, no
ethical system to which one can look – at least in the context of this course.
We have drifted so far from
ethical considerations that we no longer know that we have no ethics. The
organization which requires this course no doubt thinks it is taking the high
road, it doesn’t know that the course content and title confirm that it has
taken the low road – what is ethical today must be ethical tomorrow, otherwise we
have nothing by which to navigate. They should rename the course and not
pretend that there is such a thing as ethics. The façade should go.
When there is no longer right
or wrong, good or evil…how can there possibly be ethics?
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