Individual Responsibility for Shaping Personal Ethics

This is a first-class personal ethical statement.  What jumps out at your humble servant are two powerful points that you make very well.  One, our ethical self is a matter of personal choice in the final analysis.  Cicero, the Roman philosopher, noted that a country, or society, does not make us ethical in the final analysis.  It is our own individual choices that do.  Two is the utility of applying ethical standards to decision making.  My Ph.D. dissertation chair at the University of Wisconsin - Madison taught me this, among other gems of wisdom.  It is this.  What in the final analysis is always tested it our ethics, our moral that produce our ethics.  Making decisions, of course, is one of those times that such testing occurs big time.  Good job!   Dr. Rux