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My Principles Of Professional Ethics

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In life we adhere to certain standards established by society and follow a fixed set of principles. However, I often find myself questioning what are principles and do I really live my life by these principles. Professional Ethics as new as it is has encouraged three things for me self-awareness, questioning my actions and reactions to situations and open-mindedness. The content taught in class thus far has really started a chain of thoughts for me personally, in the past I had never given much thought to what my principles are and how my principles influence me. Principles in its purest form is simply a combination of values, morals and ethics. These are all attitudes by which one may conduct himself/herself, these may be considered as guiding …show more content…

Hence, each person needs to make a conscious decision to live in accordance with these, in absence of such a decision a person by default leads a disharmonious life. However, is anyone truly a ‘person of principle’? My answer is no. Returning back to The moral competency test(MCI) I completed in week one was a defining moment for me because the results forced me to recognize certain behavioural patterns I had fallen into over the years. My ‘weaknesses’ that were reveal, genuinely took me by surprise as I was not aware of most of them prior to taking the test. How does a person like me who has considered themselves to be of high moral and high principles go from here? It was hard at first for me to not sit and dwell on my shortcomings and think that I was a ‘bad person’. In the past three weeks I have come to the conclusion that the areas where I experienced inadequacies did not equate to me being a bad person. Instead it was the result of falling into the trap of societal expectancy. Everyone wants to see the world in a certain order and when you find that it is not so, you rationalize by thinking that other people do not have the same principles you do and somehow that makes you a lesser being. The reality of the matter is that different people have different principles.
I was brought up in a fairly religious family and had what was considered a ‘normal’ childhood. When I was young,

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