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What does ethics mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
  2. Morality.
  3. The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
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On the contrary, ethics is determinately particularistic, at times veering dangerously close to narcissistic.
And Labor, in truth, is responsible for the diabolical state of ethics in Australia's radio and commercial television media.
Obviously, when journalists betray their code of ethics by making up stories, or egregious misconduct, they must be punished.
A number of new books have begun to question the ethics of marketing beauty products and services to adults too.
We should not put up with the army of health and ethics experts who are now trying to police both public debate and private lives.
The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.

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