Ethical decisions

We, as human beings are constantly facing situations where the decisions we make are crucial. We have to decide either in what to do, what to say or where to go. But sometimes things are not that simple and so they become more complex and we start to lose our common sense. To find our minds in a peaceful state again we have to require to ethical decisions. This type of decisions appear when you are fair, you respect yours and the others beliefs and when you are reasonable with the decisions you make. The problem is that it is not always that simple.

On the one hand, it is possible to make ethical decisions when you have to survive. The most important issue that should concern someone is to stay calm and take it easy. We human beings are not used to solve our problems quietly when we work under pressure, however it is specially when we face critical moments when we have to make a clear use of our common sense and solve things in an appropriate way.

A good way to make an ethical decision could be by empathizing with people. By that means you will succeed in letting your mind be free of risky and inappropriate thoughts and it will make you focus on the correct way. Your control on yourself is in your state of mind, not in your instincts.

On the other hand, what happens when the only way to escape from a problem is either by breaking the law or going beyond your morals? Sometimes that is the only way out we see, we become desperate and we think that we can not make anything right, only wrongs. Life gives you the resources to survive, but they are not the correct ones. We can only think about leaving the past behind and go on, no matter what is the ethic price to pay.

Imagine that you have to protect someone you love because he has broken the law. A reasonable person would turn him in because he knows that it would be the right thing to do. But what happens if you love that person so much that you can not stand the fact that he will be taken to prison? An ethical decision in this situation would be to let a lawyer solve the situation in a fair way and not to run away or lie to cover him. But I do not know if everyone can take this decision so easily.

In conclusion, I firmly believe that it is possible to make an ethical decision when it is about survivance but not everyone has the qualities to do so. Personalities play an important role in this situations because these are the moments when they are truly reflected. Personally I believe that I would not be able to be happy with myself if I knew that I have done something wrong or illegal.