Jorelly Myles F.

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BSN – II A
How Am I going to live an ethical life?
In the world full of twist and turns, where vulnerability always rise, where the weak are
always low, where the accused are always wrong, and where justice is always rigged with
dollars. An ethical life would be something of a perfect story book, just a story, and might not
come true.

An ethical life is like having a weighing scale with you, a true weighing scale and not
some random stuff put together. You weigh out the right and the wrong but you can’t easily
compare the two with just your opinion. Take for example you use a cook book to cook so to
know what ingredient is to be added along with the right measurement. Like having an ethical
life, you follow the rules, and the rules I mean you follow the law because the law is where
justice is righteous and served equally. But can I ask is justice always in our side? Does the law
always serve the right judgment? Is there actually equality? Is an ethical life even possible?

A man’s life follows a certain path but never did he ever been told to follow the same life
of everyone. I follow the law but I don’t follow the path in becoming a lawyer. I respect the law
and I follow it because it is the standard written paper where justice is supposed to help others
fight for their rights and I do believe it is actually true but the holder of this justice will never be
just based on the law but also the judgment of the judge.

From the right and wrong perspective, we have the idea of right and wrong for our own
but sometimes, it varies upon another person’s eyes. Taking for example a shooting incident has
happened, the victim is shoot from behind of his head with a blood loss after 15 minutes before
the ambulance, a medical staff of the nearby school has seen the incident and came in to do a
CPR to try to revive the patient although from others eyes, that victim is already dead. So the
point there was you were doing what you thought was a good response due to protocols but to
the naked eye it seems already wrong and unnecessary. What life is actually an ethical life is
then? Is it following the rules despite knowing the expected outcome? Or would you follow your
instinct that it will always end up like this?

For life itself, we can never live a perfect and ethical life but rather we go with the flow
of life. We are equipped with the moral knowledge of right and wrong. We have the mind of
which is to be done or not. And we have the law to help us. We have other’s perspective to guide
us. And lastly we have ourselves to fight what we know is right because in the end, it will always
be our decision in how we end our actions.