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ethical

An ethical issue, problem, etc. relates to questions of good or bad, right or wrong. Doctors have to think about both the medical and ethical parts of the problem. If something is ethical, it is good, not bad or wrong. Often, this is based on formal philosophy. Often, what is ethical is based on rules of a group or profession (kind of job). Is it really ethical to eat meat?

ethical

of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics ethical codes ethical theories conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior an ethical lawyer ethical medical practice an ethical problem had no ethical objection to drinking Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants — Omar N. Bradley (= honorable, honourable) adhering to ethical and moral principles it seems ethical and right followed the only honorable course of action

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Some people become vegetarians for ethical reasons.
It is not ethical for a doctor to reveal confidences.
Is this ethical?
Cloning people raises serious ethical problems.
It's not ethical.

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It's not ethical, reading other people's stuff.
It is hardly ethical. All statements are supposed to come from me.
You consider it ethical to judge a man without all the evidence?
Well, it may not be ethical, but there are reasons why we ought to find out more about the Count.
It isn't ethical. I'm here as your doctor.
But, Marcus, with Plautius regarding her as his daughter, I mean, is this ethical?
It couldn't be quite ethical but.
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens.
Do you. Do you suppose it's ethical, even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime?
I see no ethical purpose for a raid on Troy.
I hardly think it ethical for me to express my opinion.
On the whole, you are both ethical in business matters. and certainly farsighted socially.
No. Ethical doctors don't advertise.
Ethical doctors starve.
But you can't go there, it isn't ethical.
You've got no ethical earnestness at all, Mr. Scholz.
It isn't ethical.
It isn't exactly ethical to use this machine in the solution of a personal problem.
Sorry, don't think it'd be ethical to tell you their names.
On the whole, you are both ethical in business matters. and certainly far-sighted socially.
Course not. No ethical agency does.
No. I called for ethical reasons.
I don't think it's very ethical, reading other people's stuff.
Well, that's hardly ethical, Doctor.
Not a very a tactful question, young man, nor a very ethical one for a young doctor-to-be to ask.
It ain't ethical.
Do you suppose it's ethical, even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime?
Well, since I'm representing your wife, don't you think it would be more ethical if you got another attorney?
I propose that our cut be put into the planetary treasury and used to guide the lotians into a more ethical system.
He took me out to a nice, ethical Chinese restaurant, where we had ethical Sub Gum duck.
Ethical, unethical!
An ethical problem.

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Humans are born with the capacity to be moral, but it is a limited capacity which is ill equipped to deal with the ethical complexities of the modern world.
But it is better to begin the ethical discussion too early than too late.
I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
Hovland drew upon ideas dating back to Aristotle's Rhetoric, which argued that persuasiveness is built on the communicator's ethical character, the audience's emotional state, and the logic of the argument, the latter being the most powerful.
But moral and ethical questions never yield fully to technical solutions; they also require an understanding of humanity's social and cultural heritage.
When I spoke with Wyatt last month, he acknowledged that there were practical reasons for not using real apes in his movie. But he also understood the ethical issue.
Abolitionists respond with two ethical arguments.
So the death penalty debate boils down to an exchange of conflicting ethical and utilitarian views.
Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have thus followed a strikingly similar road: access to lucrative markets trumped ethical anxiety.
All of these groups have their respective professional associations, which hold regular meetings and establish certification standards that keep the information up-to-date and the practitioners ethical in their work.
Can Business Be Ethical?
And what they engage in is an amalgam of ethical, aesthetic, religious, and practical action.
In behaving this way, the IMF rode roughshod over basic economic and ethical principles.
For economists to misrepresent their policy decisions as mere technical matters violates basic ethical and professional precepts.
Indeed, scientists have not only identified some of the brain pathways that shape our ethical decisions, but also chemical substances that modulate this neural activity.
So we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help - in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.
This raises serious ethical questions.
Debt forgiveness raises thorny ethical concerns about condoning reckless and irresponsible behavior.
But he also understood the ethical issue.
Microsoft in Russia or Google in China teach us that capitalism is not ethical: it is only efficient.
From an ethical perspective, however, should we care so much about the purity of the motive with which the gift was made?
To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.
India needed no ethical lessons from a United States and a Britain that have long coddled military dictators in India's South Asian neighborhood, notably in Pakistan.
For a country steeped in millennia of Confucianism, the need for ethical leadership should be clear.
Recently, however, concern has been expressed - from within the diamond trade - that the scope of the Kimberley Process is too limited, and that consumers have thus been lulled into believing that there are no longer any ethical problems with diamonds.

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