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Abstract: Ethics is one of the things that the individuals should remember all the time. Its the key for the people to
understand any kind of circumstances and can react to any kind of situation in a good and positive way. This is
an attitude on how to react in different situation and when or what are possible things to do when you are in
tight situation. Ethics is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. The
term also applies to any system or theory of moral values or principles. Ethics deals with such questions at all
levels. Its subject consists of the fundamental issues of practical decision-making, and its major concerns
include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be judged right or wrong.
In this paper, the researcher will be answering the question is the code of ethics is still relevant to the 21 st
century? Providing facts and data that will make an answer and conclusion to the question, better and broad
knowledge that the researcher will try to enlightened to the readers.
Keywords: Ethics, Code of Ethics, Social Media, Modern Trend, Culture, Morality
INTRODUCTION:
The morality of people to react on situation on what is right or wrong has been based by their own self-
belief, culture and understanding, creating situation with two different person can make the argue a lot
worse. But sometimes ethics doesnt provide people what they really expected; it doesnt show the right
answer to all the morality and beliefs of people.
Social media, one of the things that has been evolving through centuries but as time passes by, the more
technologies innovates the world the more and different perspectives of individual has been shown.
Facebook, twitter, instagram, YouTube & etc. are the social media circulating on everyones mobile phone.
The concept of these is to show to everyone they knew, how they feel, expressing their self and fighting on
what they thought were right and wrong. Popularity also is the generations new inspiration, either doing
what is right or wrong, the individual who seeks popularity did whatever it takes and have desperate move
to be on the popularity line. As a researcher and also a teenager, individuals have they own perspective to
be on the popularity list and as a matter of fact the trend is by showing of their body which the researcher
think is wrong, Correcting the grammar of other people to make themselves smarter than others, Making
fun of people who has disability or uncertain things and telling everyone that it is just a joke. Making wrong
facts and spreading to everyone has a major impact to the society.
1.0 CONTENT:
1.1 Ethics
Ethics is what you do when no one is looking George Bernard Shaw (slideshare.net)
This is a quote that simplifies the meaning of ethics. Describing ethics generally means the studies of
virtues, values and moral principles. It is subjected to the fundamental issues of practical decision-making,
and its major concerns includes the nature of the fundamental issues and the standard by which human
actions can be judged right or wrong. It includes to the behaviour, personality and attitude of an individual.
Ethics will show how a certain individual socialize with other human as him. It will also define his reaction
in a situation that he faces. Ethics can be defined as the role of ethic in civil life, in the important areas of
science and technology.
This principle of ethics can be lean at school, at home, in church, mosque, In our professional and family
setting. This is normally come during our childhood, pre-school days and we go through that training
throughout our life time. Although, the training we received may be differ from one another but it always
on the same direction of ethics whether right or wrong principle of life. Some people may wrongly define
ethics as normal or common things that happen in our societies. But the questions still remains why do we
go through a lot environmental challenges on ethics during our time in our society.
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Relevance of ethics in the 21st Century
Nowadays, the complex web of interactions between social networking service users and their online and
offline communities, social network developers, corporations, governments and other institutions along
with the diverse and sometimes conflicting motives and interests of these various individual will continue to
require rigorous philosophical analysis for decades to come.
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Relevance of ethics in the 21st Century
learn these things to educated children that have high curiosity level. Last is the Death Penalty, this topic
has been arguing through years because it might be wrong to be legalize and it might be right for the safety
of people On some point, ethics is all about what the individual had learned in the past few years and just
envelop the things on their comfort zone. It is their own conclusion to decide whether the things are right or
wrong for them. Even those Ten Commandments and other Philosophers sayings it ended up by the
individual who will come up on what he/she thinks.
2.0 CONCLUSION
Ethics has different perspective regarding on different situations. Thus, ethics and its relevance to the 21st
century is a necessary tool not just for the organization but also individual who wants success. Those
values, principles and virtues will be a huge part of every life to fulfil their own dream by doing what is
right. It is like shaping your own life by setting professional behaviour. This should not be forgotten or been
ignore.
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