Blog 2

The discussion in class was interesting and informing. Ethics systems is not a topic that comes up in casual conversations with peers, so I learned alot. One thing I noticed was the overwhelming majority being from a similar background as me. Most people seemed to be raised Christian in one way or another. The more interesting part of it was comparing how people’s ethics systems work now. People from that group who felt strongly about their ethics system usually fell into one of two categories. Having an ethics system based mostly on the christian one or one developed through their own experiences. However, it seemed like the people in the latter category had ethics very similar to the people in the former category. It is interesting to me that so many people had very similar ethics systems despite using vastly different reasoning to come to that conclusion.

This raises the question of where does this ethics system come from? I am not saying that the class is a good sample of the average person in the world, or even at App, but the number of people this was true for makes this interesting. Do these ethics come from nature or nurture? It’s hard to tell from one discussion, but it is something I plan on continuing to look into in the future