of my favorite class ever. We discussed intellectual freedom and the rights each person has to information, both access and expression, twice a week for six weeks.
Fascinating topic, let me tell you.
Today, we were discussing ethics and how they relate to libraries. We covered schools of ethics, like the utilitarian, deontological, and social contract approaches.
Universalist ethics came up, and I found myself wondering if there really are such overarching ethical standards. One of my fellow students stated his belief that one such standard is no one has the right to take another human life under any circumstances - not war, not self-defense, not to alleviate pain and/or suffering, not to save another. Thou shalt not kill. It's universal.
Do you think, that as a Christian, I am supposed to believe in universal ethics? To state in another way, does the fact that I am a Christian mean that I automatically accept certain universal ethics?
If I don't believe that, how can I justify my seemingly disjointed and nontraditional ethical views and choices?
Comments welcome.
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