Friday, December 26, 2008

I think, often, that the idea of "ethics" becomes lost in the midst of conflict. All my life, I have considered myself an ethical person. As I have grown older, I have found myself questioning if I ever really knew what "ethical" meant, or what having morals means. When the nameless, faceless soldier on the television becomes the civilian that you love, who has done all he could for his country and himself--because there is no way out--when he hates himself for shooting a gun and feeling pleasure when the enemy dies, what definition of morality can be given? To whom can "ethical" be ascribed?

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