George Marshall

English 3
Ms.Carroll/ Mr. Kelly

My 10 rules to being an ethical person

Ethical means moral principles that are controlled by someone’s behavior or 

the conducting of an activity. To be ethical you follow good morals and you are an 

honest person living and thriving. Justice means behavior and treatment. How are 

they related? They are related because they both follow under the category of 

character. The ethical framework that guides my rules is the Virtue framework. 

Thus, my rules mainly reflect the consequentialist and the virtue framework. 

The rules that follow under the virtue framework is “be honest, open minded, and 

loving,” because you are considering of what one should be. You should always be 

honest because that reflects you being a good person and showing you have good 

behavior. In the ​Framework for Making Ethical Decisions​ it states “the framework 

looks at a lot at character,” and with that being stated, assuming you want to be a 

good person you’d care about what you are portraying. This ties back to the virtue 

framework because you are considering the person want to be portray. 

However, the rules that reflect consequentialist are the rest of my rules 

which are, “Do no judge, think before you speak, and do no harm to others.” 

Considering that this framework means the outcome of the future I feel like these 
rules fall perfectly into this framework. ​ ​ In the ​Framework for Making Ethical 

Decisions​ it states ​“​we focus on the future effects of the possible courses of action.”  

I feel personally like, what goes around comes back so, i try my best to act 

accordingly to how i want to be treated. This shows how these fall into the 

consequentialist framework because im thinking how about how my actions now 

will affect me in the future. 

As a result, I developed my rules based on the way I act and what I give 

thought to what a good person really is. I follow all of these rules but it’s a natural 

duty more than a voluntary obligation. Whereas I act accordingly because of a 

certain situation, I always follow these rules everyday because that’s just who I am. 

A change i made to my rules was where i had “respect everyone's personal space” 

But in reality not only should we only respect their personal space but their 

opinions as well. We should always remain open minded as possible. 

conclusion, my life would probably remain the same if i stuck to these rules 

because i already try my best to follow these every day. It helps me maintain a 

better attitude and helps me stay more positive in general. If everyone else followed 

these rules they would be living a better life because being honest and being a 

positive person overall will give you good outcomes. Although, many people don’t 

like honesty it does not matter... you are being true to yourself and that is the best 

way to live your life. Those are my rules to being a great person.