Ethics

Throughout my childhood the main ethic that I have been taught was that you get more from honey than you do with vinegar. This just means if you are nice to people, you will get more in the long run than if you were mean to people. From a very early age my parents started teaching me this. I can see this not only from my parents, who taught me the idea and who try and instill that idea in the things they do, but also from my peers around me. I witness cases of both honey and vinegar throughout a regular day at University High School. There are students that are known to be really nice kids. In general, they are the students that are given the most respect from students and teachers alike. There are also students at the school that have a bad reputation for being mean and rude jerks. This image radiates off of them, and even new people are able to tell this fact about them. Whenever they get into trouble, everyone is quick to say that it was probably their fault, even if they didn’t here the whole story. When asking for a favor, people are less inclined to do it for them, based on the fact that they know the student isn’t very nice. If you just take the time and notice things happening around you, you are able to see this idea be carried out all of the time throughout the day. There are many other ethics of my life, for example, do not steal, respect your elders, and always say please and thank you, but out of all of the ethics of my life, this is the one that is most important.