The courage to stand up against your own ingroup is the highest form of courage and morals.
It requires independence of thought and high principles.
It requires independence of thought and high principles.
I have no German ties whatsoever but I am in deep admiration of their capacity to accept, correct and be vigilant of repetition.
I know neo-nazism exists. I hope it continues to be an aberration.
Neo-nazism doesn't scare me as much as the average American patriot, whose political cover allows many, many crimes to be committed in their name with, seemingly, no repercussion.
However, as a believer in karma, participating in such a society is not on - thus, I moved.
My only concern now is that the Germany of the future will have what it needs to address America - because it doesn't look like Americans are going to be roping in their criminal death cult any time soon ... and all signs point to an America, in the future, which will have to deal with the crimes being committed in its name, today.
Ethics are a group choice - a set of morals, in the plural, derived from "ethike" - the 'science of morals'.
They're interlocked, sure, but it is an individual who makes a moral decision for themselves, but an ethical decision for their group...
EDIT: I mean, all you have to do is look at the definition of both words in a few dictionaries. Its pretty clearly stated that ethics are a group of morals formulated around the purposes of a group, where morals are derived from and based on an individual decision. Can't have one without the other.
Of course, you are within your rights to disagree - such is the nature of the ethics of philosophical discussions.
But that too is a moral view, is it not? It may be "meta-relative" to other moral views but doesn't keep it from being statement of values.