Ethics?

[bluepilot]

I have to go along with a set of ethics as a medical interpreter.

It means I have to adhere to rules about confidentiality, impartiality, not advising the patient, interpreting things as they are said without embellishment e.t.c.

These ethics exist to protect the patient and to establish the doctor-patient-interpreter relationship in a clinical environment. Some of the ethics are quite hard to adhere to and agree with at times but it is a job and I just get on with it.

One of the ethical rules that I find really hard is having to respect cultural values, especially when that particular person is sick because of their own "cultural" practices. For example, we had a diabetic patient once who continued to mix sugar into his drinks, as is practice in his culture, even after being told that he had to reduce his sugar levels. There was this huge big deal about it because of "cultural respect" and things but actually the patient just needed to be told that sugar, even in drinks, was going to kill him. Sometimes the whole "cultural" thing is used instead of "ignorance" as if to justify the lack of education that only a minority of people in the world can take advantage of. That drives me crazy.

In my personal life I do not really have a code of ethics except not hurting other people and just stuff like that.

 

[wilsontheterrible]

could they? i have GOT to find a place to hide my assassination money. I always demand cash, less of a papertrail but i swear its just building up in a mound in my safe house. I swear i dont know what to do with it!

And part of the problem was simply that was all he had on him and he pissed me off. i took the wallet if it helps?

Okay, so what you want to do is find a few other killers for hire and set up a business organization called a Professional Service Company. It's a type of limited liability company that would allow you and your fellow killers to access a stable source of income and some level of reasonable deniability. You could also use that blood money to invest with to turn that earned income into passive income so you can get taxed at a favorable capital gains rate. Because remember, the IRS doesn?t care if the income is illegal...as log as you pay tax on it.
See? This is how accountants make everything better.

 

[Connor Lonske]

Personally, my ethical code is simple.

If you want it and I don't need it, take it.

If you need it and I don't want it, have it.

If you want it, but know of it's value or worth, then you will have it.

If you need it, and don't care about having it or not, then you will receive it.

If you need it and want it, then I keep it, no exceptions.

Let me explain that a bit.

First line is for simple things, like someone is standing on the bus, and you're getting off in a few stops, then what I would do is give him my seat, out of kindness.

Second line is for people who are in need of something, and I don't care to keep it or I don't care about needing it then I give it to them.

Third line is for giving gifts and is pretty self explanatory, although the meaning of me giving it at all is worth more than the item itself, so that's what I mean by value.

Fourth line is for charitable acts or giving to the homeless. If the receiver knows they need it, but does not beg for it, then if I can I give them all that I can.

Fifth line is almost strictly for beggars, who I have no sympathy for whatsoever.

And that's it really.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I'm a wildlife biology undergraduate, so ethics play a pretty significant role in my field of study. Aside from the usual academic stuff, there is a huge emphasis on conducting your fieldwork in an ethical manner and minimising the damage done to the terrain, flora and fauna. Ethics is a pretty major part of our Earth Science module as well, given the extent to which humans can alter their environment.
Not that I was an embodiment of Agent Orange before this, of course. But I've learned quite a lot since I started the course that had not occurred to me before.

On a personal basis, I just stick to the 'do unto others' axiom. It's a good umbrella-ethos.

 

[SoopaSte123]

I know a bunch of Eagle scouts and saying that you're one means absolutely nothing to me. They are no more dependable or hardworking than anyone else... actually, the ones I know are less so.

OT: I'm not sure I have an ethical code since I'm not big on following rules. Granted, some rules have good purposes and I follow them, but I follow them because of the outcome and not because the rule exists.

The world is far too situational for me to make up my own rules and always follow them. I'm sure I have a pattern in the actions I take, but that doesn't mean I have an ethical code.