Ethics is the ability to decide whether something is good or is bad. It is a moral philosophy that seeks to answer questions of human morality, by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, among others.
Firstly, ethics is important to survive. It involves basic needs such as shelter, food, clothes that are essential for stay alive in terrible situations. Besides, being fair, honest and ethical are fundamental to satisfy human basic needs.
Moreover, being ethical means being able to use all the resources, thinking quickly and having attitude so as to help the others which are not in good conditions to do so. Trying to assist and help them through difficult situations means that ethical decisions are possible. For example, is the case of Jorge Lanata, an Argentinian politic journalist who needed a kidney transplant and fortunately someone donated his kidney in exchange of the kidney of Lanata´s wife, whose kidney was not compatible with her husband´s, but it was with this boy.
On the contrary, forgetting about the others who are in the same difficult situation and thinking only about yourself, ethical decisions are not going to be possible to survive. There is no fairness, no friendship. Neither values are presented among the others.
In addition, being desperate makes people not think, not knowing what to do, or even how to react. For instance, it completely changes someone´s mind when you finally realise there are more people suffering. A clear example was seen in the year 1972, when an aeroplane crashed in "La Cordillera de los Andes" in Chile, in which Uruguayan rugbiers were travelling.
As a conclusion, ethical decisions are possible or not depending on the people and on how they are accustomed to react in such circumstances, whether their basic needs are met or not.
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