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fadesibertyesterday at 3:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you are waiting until undergraduate level to take ethics, it's far too late to matter anyways.

Doubly so for "business ethics" classes which became à la mode in the post-Enron era. They attempt to teach fundamental ethics, when at most it should be a very thin layer on top of a well founded internal moral framework and well-accepted ethical standards inculcated from day 1 of kindergarten.

Morals are taught 0-9 [0], Ethics perhaps slightly later as it requires more complex thought processes.

[0] https://familiesforlife.sg/pages/fflparticle/Young-Children-...


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jadaryesterday at 4:40 AM

Exactly. But, I would add ethics comes from worldview. The idea of teaching some sort of “secular” ethics has never made sense to me … even if you could pull it off it would never stick. Education is meant to make moral people, and that requires transcendent moral principles that come from somewhere outside of us — namely YHWH, our creator. Anything else is merely borrowing from our worldview — which is good as far as it goes but will always fall short.

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