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Ethics

Ethics (noun): moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ethics

“These monuments must not represent hate in any form, so we must consider removing any that no longer represent beliefs, values, and ethics of the majority of our community members.”

I stumbled across this word while reading “Drafting a thesis statement”. I heard of the word “ethical” before but I never truly understood the denotation. In the context of the reading It had words such as “beliefs”, “values”, and “community”. I knew it had to do with peoples morals and general behavior and how it effects one another in a community. There’s a difference between “Ethics” and ” Ethic”, not only due to the fact that ethics is the plural version but “ethic”  means a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field or form of conduct. The word ethic originates from Greece.