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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/3/2007 4:07:25 AM

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I don't know, if one can exactly write such things down precisely.

I have alot of little one liners, that sum it up for me, but who knows if they translate.

Evil thinks it's Good. (Reason people, feel justified in pushing their view on people often with dire consequences, because most Evil is done in the name of Good, and is believed so at the time by those performing the action. Believing this it makes me pause before doing things that I think are obviously "right", I think this is the biggest problem with people and the world, the notion of obvious "truth","good", "right", which is usually performed at the detriment of the helpee.)

The devil always smiles(A personified version of if it's to good to be true it probably is, Anything or anyone that paints a perfect picture of themselves, or a situation is more than likely being deceptive, and or manipulative, whether that be conscience, or sub conscience is another question).

Do onto others as you'd like to be treated, until they fuck with you. Then they are no longer a consideration. (Essentially try to help people, until they do something that shows they have a incompatible moral base than I have, at which point they might as well be a different animal, and I won't help at all, and try to remove them from my life.)

I believe worshipping symbols is akin to evil and is the cause of the vast majority of waste. (Nike,Adidas, Clorox, Jaguar, etc...), It reduces things to be only worth the status they bring instead of the function of the object. Some things are judged by their quality and the name becomes synonymous, but not most. It's essentially Judging a book by it's cover. Though neglecting it's a crappy book or a 1/10 full bag of potato chips for 3.50. The whole of the western society is built on this crap concept, and it turns every one into mindless symbol chasing drones collecting status points. For proof all you have to do is look at the success of bottled water.

Nothing is guaranteed, and be prepared to pay the consequences.

Help those that help themselves.

That's enough for now

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/3/2007 5:47:43 PM

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Honesty loyalty and Honor are the only thing you can carry with you to the grave so let it be my lifes work to carry as much of that with me as I can

“The boondock saints” quotes that i agree with
Connor: Destroy all that which is evil.
Murphy: So that which is good may flourish.
MURPHY: Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor: These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
(amazing movie if you ever get to see it)

"Honor is a gift a man gives himself" Liam Neeson, Rob Roy

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/3/2007 7:28:57 PM

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"what goes around.....comes around" so watch your behind!

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/10/2007 10:44:11 PM

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Honesty loyalty and Honor are the only thing you can carry with you to the grave so let it be my lifes work to carry as much of that with me as I can

"Honor is a gift a man gives himself" Liam Neeson, Rob Roy

A gift can not be given with just cause. Let the rules that I allow govern my life guide my hand In my futures endeavors. come the time that my ideals are challenged let my true determination to uphold my moral provoke the appropriate actions necessary to prevent a reoccurrence. In doing what is right I will find honor. in preventing the corruption of my morals will I maintain dignity.

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/10/2007 10:55:45 PM

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i do what is necessary to protect those i care for, harming none unless i am left with no other choice; but i am not hampered by morals and ethics

i feel if i do what is necessary, then questioning those decisions later only succeed in causing me to hesitate when i am needed to act

this may be a cold and fatalistic approach, but doing what is necessary is not always the same as doing what is right

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/11/2007 5:21:40 AM

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Gosh. Now you've done it. I'll try to make this extremely brief.

My moral self-regulation is based on abstract reasoning using formal logic to derive a formal system from the axioms I have chosen. Obviously, these axioms must not violate internal consistency. Actions are only undertaken if they are in accordance with the formal system. Laws, expectations, social conventions, and so forth are ignored, except insofar as they are already expressed by this formal system, in which case they are redundant.

When evaluating the actions of others, I try to infer their frame of reference from their actions and words, and primarily consider internal consistency.

This is essentially a more formalized version of the sixth stage of Kohlberg's stages of moral development, abstracted to a moral relativist point of view.

My axioms are too many to list here, but were chosen to provide a certain interoperability with conventional western morality and the tenets of my faith.

They are certainly pretty exclusively my own, and the only person that has so far tried to piece together a single aspect of them commented that my head ought to explode, although I take that as a compliment.

My ethics have changed over time, both in content and in structure. All human ethics appear to do so, which is consistent with what one would expect regarding mental development.

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/11/2007 5:35:58 AM

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My ethics have changed very little in the past 8 years or so. Prior to that time, I was pursuing a high profile artistic career and most of my life, ethics included, revolved around creating the purest, most honest and focused work that I could produce. In the end, I found I had to sacrifice too much of what I found to be vital as a ‘good’ person, not to art itself but to the machinations of the industry of art, and opted out of art as a career.

After that epiphany, I went all the way back home. By that I mean that I went back to the most elemental ethos of who I was taught to be.

My ethics are fairly simple. It takes just as much effort to to be kind as to be cruel. I try to offer something good rather than something bad in what ever environment I am working in. That does not always equal the fluffiest offering, and by no means do I succeed to live up to my standards all the time. After the loss of my collar, I felt it was important, not only for myself (in fact, I still have trouble adopting my newest caveat just for myself alone) but for my family and those who have been good to me when I could not be good to myself, that I can no longer give the best of myself away when it is not valued and when that giving starts (or continues) to destroy the essential person that I am.

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/11/2007 7:56:15 AM

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greetings vendvenal

i live by the code my mother taught me. live around others in peace, talk with an open heart if you have something and another is in need share. never talk down to others. do not see yourself as better also remember that other have the same feeling, my mother grown up in the time when it was the thing to cross the street when someone white was there. but she never brought hate into our home. my father well is was different. but i live by my mother word and my father brinllant brain leanr and never stop learning, and this i have done for many years.
so with my mother teaching and also she taught us to believe in god strongly i still live by this and have come to know that what she taught me made me the woman i am today strong smart and artist. she was one strong kind woman. a lady from the south oh yes she taught me how to be a lady and i still have her ways to this day

thank you for listening
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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/11/2007 8:49:27 AM

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Before I get caught up in reading everyone else's wonderful answers I will give my own.

Mostly, take complete responsibility for all of my stuff. I am not talking about material stuff either. All too many people love to play the blame game. They blame their parents, physical conditions either medical or situational, shit life throws at them, other people, you name it. I don't buy into that crap and never will. Take responsibility for yourself. Remove the excuse book from life and stop whining.

Do no harm..........again broad scope. I hear that so many people love revenge, it is useless and petty. Goes back to owning your own shit. Things like treating people like shit just because your day isn't going so well...........why? Tossing garbage like a cigarette butt on the ground. Sure it made your life easier for a millisecond but how beautiful is your town, country, all covered with ugly old cigarette butts?

Give more than I take. Again, broad subject that can apply to emotional energy, community service, work, you name it.

Make my life matter, don't waste it. Keep learning.

Be aware of the joy of the moment.......FIND IT. Easy to say but tough to do. Yesterday does not have to have any power over today, nor does tomorrow. Remember........tomorrow never really comes.

Just a few.......

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RE: What code of ethics do you live by? - 4/11/2007 4:02:50 PM

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my personal code of ethics (in abbreviated form)

Trust.. Give everyone a degree of trust until they prove unworthy of such trust. As relationships grow allow the degree of trust to grow as well. Always be the type of person that other people can trust and display honorability in everything done or said.

Honesty.. Give nothing less than complete honesty and accept nothing less in return. The truth isn't always nice, isn't always what we want to hear, but it is always the truth. Honesty is always preferable to a lie.

Communication.. Don't just hear, but listen. There is a difference. You learn more from listening than you do from speaking. You learn more from watching than you from listening. It's a cycle. Master the cycle, you master the art.

Every experience is a learning experience (especially the bad ones).. Whether good or bad every experience is good for something. You always come away with knowledge. Things that one can change, things that are exactly the way they should be, etc. Take that knowledge and apply it to the next situation in life.

Continual growth and learning.. No one knows everything. It just isn't possible. Choose something to learn. Whether it be to expand vocabulary, learn a language, learn about a part of history that intriques you, anything. Knowlege is indeed power. Power to be confident, power to converse with people of different cultures, power to grow and succeed as a person.

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