Ethics can be looked at in many different shades of light because ethics is different from person to person. Ethics comes to each person through family, religion and culture. So does that make one persons code of ethics better then someone else’s? Ethics can be looked at as common sense but practicing ethical speaking and presentation is not just a matter of common sense. We live in an uncommon world, constantly changing, constantly morphing. Here are a few words to describe ethical, conscientious, correct, decent, fair, fitting, good, honest, honorable, just, moral, principled, proper, right, righteous, upright, and virtuous. If a person believes in what they are saying does it make ethically wrong? Ethical peaking is really complex and has a thin line from right and wrong. In the movie “Thank You for Smoking” (2005, dir. Reitman) the main character Nick Naylor, the spokes person for cigarettes raises the question whether he is an ethical speaker or not?
Even though nick was charismatic, persuasive charming and very likeable that doesn’t mean that he was ethical when he was speaking or does it? Those traits are great to have but without honest, honorable, just, fair and righteous you would be looked at as a conman rather than an ethical speaker! Even though nick may have not been an ethical speaker, a lot of the things, I feel any way were ethical. For example when he said; whether good or bad everybody has to pay a mortgage. It may not be right to do bad to get money to pay your mortgage it just the way it is, because at the end of the day the mortgage company don’t care where the money comes from as long as they get theirs. Another thing nick said that was pretty good was; you don’t have to be right but just prove the other person wrong. In some people eyes this can be considered to be ethical but is it really? Ethical speaker is in the eye of the beholder and who you are speaking to and if the audience you are speaking to have the same interest as you....