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Ethics Reflections
Ethics and Social Responsibility is a hard subject to quantify. The more general answer is the one that is on the University Studies website uses, and that is to understand the implications of our choices, but ethics is so much more than that. Ethics is a moral code that you live by, and it is so ingrained in your personality that you live by it without ever consciously thinking about it. Ethics is such an integral part of your personality that you never acknowledge the fact that they are the reason you do and don’t do certain things.
The subject of ethics, or lack thereof, has been a hotbed of controversy throughout recorded history, especially in recent years, with the advent of technological advance outgrowing humankind’s ability to control it. The moral and ethical implications that the nuclear age has wrought upon society are too many to number. I chose as my example of work in the ethics category my reflection on the atomic bomb. The nuclear age started when the first atomic bomb exploded over Japan, and we are still dealing with the social and ethical impacts of that action.