Reply #139: ethics are a priority

[thinkingwoman]

I wouldn't want anyone to key my car because I have a Jesus is Liberal bumper sticker, so I feel it is wrong (and definitely bad karma) to take a marker to somebody else's vehicle.

That has nothing to do with people dying, lying presidents, global warming, or anything else. It has to do with personal ethics, which, for me, have never been situational.

Right and wrong don't change depending on somebody else's actions unless we're talking self-defense from a physical attack.

My kids are teens now, but when they were younger they would try to excuse their bad behavior by outlining what their sibling had done to "make them" act badly. That didn't fly in our house. And it should not fly here either.

Ethical consistency is a big priority for me. It staves off hypocrisy. If it's not important to you, that's your problem, but it begs the question of whose priorities are actually out of whack.