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1e. Describe your personal ethic. How does it align with civic actions?

How does your ethic


endorse the responsibilities of an active citizen in society? What other experiences (academic,
personal, etc.) informed your personal ethic?

I actually am excited to write about this, there's almost too much information to process to answer this
question. I think it's important to define "Personal ethic"

"Personal ethics is a category of philosophy that determines what an individual believes about morality
and right and wrong."
https://pages.stolaf.edu/ein/disciplines/personal-ethics/

I don't believe in objective morality at all, I'm relatively solid in this belief, at least, at this current time.
There's no right or wrong that is dictated by the universe, it seems most probable to me that society is
in “charge” of directing morality. Some examples I can think of off the top of my head are ancient
communities enthusiastically accepting extremely “immoral” actions, (human sacrifice, arena combat
of prisoners/animals/gladiators, scalping your enemies) Accepting an objective morality essentially
forces you think of humankind in different points of history as a whole as “less moral” which has never
made sense to me, its all culturally relative.

Being an “active citizen” takes form in a ton of different ways, there's no real right or wrong way in my
opinion, I think it's hard to justify advocating for civic action past “try and find something that feels
fulfilling and do it”. Being a member of society that attempts to add value to the world is important
enough, in my opinion, regardless of any other things, or how anyone else feels about your contribution
Even something as simple as learning from your mistakes and trying to learn from the perspective of
others is being an active citizen. I don't think everyone has the capacity or responsibility to spend their
free time on advocacy, specifically, life is difficult, can we expect single parents or people caring for
their grandparents to spend their free time at the soup kitchen?

Everyone's ethic is formed by their personal experiences, religious choices, ect ect... Basically just how
they've experienced life. In my education, a lot of classes, at SLCC specifically, have pushed the idea
of civic service, and it's never really made much sense to me, it seems like it's something you really
have to figure out on your own, being forced into civic duty seems like a good way to be permanently
put you off from service in the future, because you're not doing it for “you”. Ultimately I think
motivation has to come from within.

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