Ethics Are More Than Instincts

“One of the challenges with codes of ethics is that they’re very effective at informing ethical decision making, they’re very effective at dealing with certain, specific issues, but on other issues, they simply provide a broad guideline without specifically addressing all issues. Think of how voluminous a code would be if it attempted to address all issues. And so, what’s necessary to have in place is a mechanism for making good, sound decisions when the code doesn’t speak to the issue directly,” he says.