The Santa Clara Markula Center’s article “Thinking Ethically” descibes how ethics is something that is apart of everyones life and is something everyone thinks about each day through different situations and scenarios. The article states that ethics do not just resolve around facts, for example what is right and wrong, but it also requires values, like why something is right and why something is wrong. Following, the artcile shares five different value approaches philosophers have developed to deal with ethics and moral issues. The five include the unitarian approach, the rights approach, the fairness of justice approach, the common-good approach, and finally the virtue approach. Following each approach, there are five questions that must be asked to comprehend ethical values.

For me personally, I like to consider myself a very fair person. I find it very upsetting when certain situtations are not fair to all. I understand that the world is unfair and not perfect, but I find it important and ethical to be as fair as possible. For example, class punishments. In elementary school, I was a very good kid, as I was terrified of getting in trouble not just at school, but at home. So when the class was misbehaving, but I was not apart of it, but we ALL got punished, I never thought that was right or ethical.

I think they world could also considere the Fairness of Justice Approach, as I think majority of our society are selfish and only care about their own good, instead of being fair and just.

Velasquez, Manuel, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, S.J., and Michael J. Meyer. “Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making.” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, 2021, https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/thinking-ethically/