Cheating, lying and stealing, can all be summarized in to a precise definition; a dishonest or unfair action to gain advantage. To gain unfair advantage is wrong because it is not honest. Rights and responsibilities make up common everyday life. Everyone has responsibilities to fulfil in order to claim their rights. Cheating, stealing and lying all go against this past phrase. Having completed these responsibilities brings satisfaction to ourselves, which makes us happy. If you were to say, lying to a madman who wants to murder someone is ethical, guess again because you are wrong. You have to be honest everyday of our time because it gives us that mental tranquillity that we are no lying. Stealing because you are starving is also wrong, this brings us back to our responsibilities in which states we should not take what is not ours. Cheating off a grade in order to not fail the school year is never going to be ethical because you are lying to yourself and your teacher, and as we said before, lying does not gives us that internal peace. If a toddler were to steal a candy bar from a grocery store, it would be ethical because in the child’s world he has no responsibilities. If this child were to be in the serious world, his actions would have been considered unethical.
-Simone de Beauvoir (FM)
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It is acceptable to lie, cheat or steal, Simone, because sometimes we have to do this in order to save someone's life or to do another good.It would be worst to don't do this three things but at the end have a worst ending.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with what Fabiola said because lying, stealing and cheating are unethical ways that make people dishonest. Also, people now a days need to be honest.
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