Journal #11

There are many different ethics that are practiced today. Sometimes ethics are necessary because of legal repercussions, such as lawyers or psychologists. Psychologists need to use ethics so that they will not physically, mentally, or emotionally hurt someone, which is one of their rules. They also must not lie to the extent that will hurt someone. They must lie to some extent so their experiment will not be compromised and so their people that they are doing the experiment on will not have self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy is when one person thinks that they will experience something as a result, and since they believe it, it really happens. Lawyers must use some ethics, because if they tell other people what is going on in their case, because people could use it against them. The lawyers also can not tell others about their case because if their client is guilty and the lawyer tells someone else, then the client could go to jail because the other person could tell someone that would get the client thrown into jail. Private lawyers are able to have more ethics than public lawyers, because private lawyers can turn away cases of people that they do not want to represent. They have the ability to not represent someone such as a sex offender or a pedophile, becuase they may not want to give that person the chance to get out of jail becuase the lawyer may believe that that person should have to go to jail. Sometimes people have a hard time following their ethics because of the messages from the world. For example, the world says it is okay to have sex before one is married, but many people have ethics that are against that that they eventually ignore because of the pressure from everyone else. Many people have ethics that they want or feel the need to follow, but because of some of the messages the world tries to convey, sometimes it is very hard for people to actually end up following their ethics.