From a personal understanding, ethics are a set of guidelines formed through a variety of ways, later discussed, that formulate our response to situations based on our own individual character which in turn governs and limits our own conduct. Ethics are an internal law in which through conformity or non-conformity we judge things to be right and wrong. To me our ethical stance on every issue can be summarized by the feelings that you feel after behaving to each situation. These situations most of the time will go unnoticed as the height of the situation doesn't demand a conscience decision however on matters that do call for ethical reasoning these feelings of either guilt or pride indicate whether we have followed our own code of conduct or our own moral values/ethics. My values and beliefs which form my ethical stance on issues were formed early on from my external surroundings, the explicit and implicit standards of our culture, our own experiences and our critical reflection on these standards. For example my family, the Australian law system, government regulations and many other factors have formed my own ethical stance. Self-reflection on my own code of ethics is always in operation as I enter new contexts and situations and due to myself becoming an independant agent free to form my own judgments. For example, myself being an Australian citizen abiding to a governed system of law, and growing up in a civilized nation and family, would have a different set of moral standards to an individual living in a war-torn area like Iraq due to much different external surroundings and through much different experiences.

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