What is one of your Values, ethics, that people have assaulted the most?

Question

Yet, you are standing up to it strong!

Answer 1

Using the word 'g*y' as a negative adjective is g*y.

Get the idea?

Answer 2

Well,  when I look back on my life,  one thing stands out...that is my 'determination to hold on to my beliefs' even when people around me are forming groups and playing politics.  I judge a situation purely on merit and decide my course of action.

This has made me a sort of Loner because people are unable to put me in a slot, take me for granted , as I refuse groupism of any kind.  Narrow-minded people always have problems with that.

But I am happy as I am...being true to oneself has its own rewards...  even if being popular is not one,  no one is going to accuse me of Bias...

Answer 3

The value or ethic I have held dearest since childhood -yes, really- was monogamy. I wanted a life companion, and most definitely did not want just a chapter-in-the-life companion. Imagine how crestfallen I was to discover that fidelity is not valued.

Rather, it is held in some contempt, most especially by the friends, colleagues, and no few gentlemen at bus-stops and on train platforms who covet your spouse.

I have been urged to take solace and get relief from my sorrow by joining the teeming masses of the unfettered and free, the fun-loving crowd that lives as though it will never die -or that lives with the thought that there is nothing after death, and they must get in as much as they can (...sorry) while the getting's good.

I have found precious few sympathizers, but have 'held strong' so far, even after an incredibly brazen betrayal.

Answer 4

Truth

I am  not a liar of truth!

But tell me the Truth!

I do not know yet.

But  I also assure you that you are not a liar by default.

Answer 5

My eating habits...I'm a vegetarian and it's something that my parents just don't understand nor except.

My dad has been raising h**l about it lately...but it's something that I firmly believe in, and don't plan on turning my back on any time soon.

Answer 6

My aesthetics:

"Oh, how beautiful Chinese furniture you have in your office"

(They are authentic Italian of the renaissance era).

"We are of noble and rich ancestry"

(Coming from places I know well, where the only pets known were the goats).

Answer 7

Stupidity...people are stupid and they don't even seem to know it.  It is one thing to be stupid (people can't help this) but to not realize you are dumb and not learn to take advice/follow the lead of smarter people is another.

Answer 8

I have three:

1. My insistence on honesty that leads me to abandon euphemisms.  People don't appreciate it because it makes me come across as blunt, but I still believe in saying exactly what I mean so that there are no misunderstandings.

2. My vegetarianism - people try to make all kinds of stupid arguments against me like "but don't you care about plants' suffering?"

3. My moral objection to p****y.  I have been in many awkward situations in which someone tried to give me free music or movies and I've had to tell them I have a problem with it.  Some people are horrified when I tell them that I still go out and buy music.

Answer 9

This is probably going to make me sound stupid, but: open-minded generosity.  I actually like people.  One of my maxims is always to give others the benefit of the doubt and help those who ask for it.  Needless to say, that leads to a lot of people trying to take advantage, negative reinforcement, and some more complex types of psychological distress.  So... it's embittered me quite a bit and perverted some of my values as I'm more closed-minded, and yet... what am I to do? :)

Answer 10

Free will.

Free will is a concept coined by the ancient Greeks and named Liber Arbiter in Latin philosophical writings.

Answer 11

The Naked Olympics.

I want the Olympics to go back to being held in the nude if for no other reason tan to take out the under-aged competitors. Let's face it the Chinese gymnasts were still in grade school, and as far as I am concerned; anyone that wet behind the ear should be a swimmer.

The p**n Christmas.

No present over 39.99 and highly unlikely anyone will return anything. Re-gifting is a no no and wrapping is a must. No more short cuts like with other holidays. No one under 21 is allowed to celebrate but then again they have a Christmas of their own and it is costly, half of everything gets returned or re-gifted, and many people are too lazy to wrap their presents.

I don't expect anyone to accept these ideas but they seem to say change is not always a good thing, at least not to me.

Answer 12

People have no idea what ethic is...They trying to define that which cannot be defined but felt..Any definition of ethic leads faraway from whole truth, yet becomes a model for human to exercise....definition, nothing more...Eventually all the definitions of ethic gave a birth to morality, monster to which human sacrifice Ethic...Ethic is a Value but in a hands of ignorance it became just a fancy word ...

Answer 13

i'm not standing by "it" anymore, though i would be if this question had been asked 3 months ago...

copying in exams. sad to say i finally broke it, to no avail, of course...

<----- ashamed, but helpless

Answer 14

Alice I have to say spirituality, I stick with what I believe but  it is an ongoing debate, I'm not swayed but It astounds me the difference in beliefs, to each his own I appreciate.  But what  a controversial subject.

People have their own beliefs, I voice mine .

Answer 15

I'm about 90% vegetarian for health and evironmental reasons.  (overconsumption of meat puts a lot of stress on the world's environment and is not necessary)  

Thats seems to make almost everybody uncomfortable.  Puritan vegitarians think I'm evil for eating any meat and 'regular' people think I'm strange for not eating meat with every meal, or even every day.

Answer 16

I don't believe in free will...

I don't think people are ultimately responsible for their actions... I think that if you knew every variable there is to know, then you could predict the outcome of everything...  

Answer 17

Ironically enough, my open-mindedness and unprejudiced nature. Most people around me are pretty ignorant and closeminded about things, which I understand isn't completely their fault as they have been conditioned to thinking that way, however, most people seem to be really shocked at my acceptance of certain things, for e.g. homosexuals/homosexuality, people who don't believe in God etc. I'm very passionate about tolerance and the acceptance of different people - particularly those who're a minority - so it doesn't bother me in the least to defend that stance.

Answer 18

Two, and probably linked together

A) I have the trend to use a single scale/ gauge to get to know people, evaluate my interest in them and or deal with them, whatever is their origin, social status, ethnicity, position, education.

Problems:

Working in management of foreign invested companies in  Asia, I apply the same standards of safety, work hours and conditions, pay (as a ratio with cost of living) and rules as the European standard. I also ask for the same quality of their European counterparts .  This has a cost in the short term, and is complex: often it is not appreciated by the management from the company's country of origin (they invest abroad in order to exploit costs).

At the same time, and for the same reasons,  I have a trend to be too straightforward with some people, and to give respect by merits and  skills, not by the role written on a  business card

B) I don't believe in economic and political freedom as absolute values. They both need to be tempered by higher values. Higher values are more basic human rights (food, shelter, education, social improvement, access to information, freedom of thinking). Example: if your religious freedom disrupts my freedom to read what I want, or to feed my family (because your religion says I cannot eat this and that) I respect your beliefs but I'll not respect your freedom to act against others' freedom.

If your free market becomes (as Ernesto Guevara said) a “Free fox in a free hen house” I prefer a stricter state control (look at the disaster made by IMF policies or Chicago boys suggestions all over the World). Meanwhile I contradict myself saying this because , theoretically (as best possible philosophical choice in politics) I am an anarchist. Probably, out of utopia, I am still believing in state intervention and prevalence of politics on economy

Answer 19

'One which is an assault upon the Law of Non-interference, which breaching dare violated terms of the now and future, and whose affect impacts in all regards of Script, of Agreement, of Contract with Life itself; derailing all headings, all space, obstructing all opportunities in effect, after which peering into why, one discerns that that person's intention was a wholly selfish if unconscious one by some strange reflex or if conscious then at least was it capricious, which purpose was only to accord 'his' or 'her' planning and processions in this life several times, than first develop and then evidence a bearing and respect for another's aims and efforts in this life.  

Instead is theirs found devoid of a perception for breadth and an insight to potential and probabilites and consequences that may share with or do come with any given event in one's life or that of another's.