Walk the Talk

This is an impressive, first-rate ethical statement.  Please let your humble servant "draw a red line" under two points you make.  One, you point out that ethics are behavior.  Plato defines ethics as behaviors that do not hurt others, or ourselves.  Too often we overlook the ethics of self-protection from personally destructive behaviors.  This writer loves Plato's definition, for in effect, he states:  "Walk the talk."  It is the doing, not the saying, which, in the end counts.  Sadly, today we have truckloads of fakes, phonies, and frauds who say one thing and do the other.  Washington, D.C.  is one good example. Second is the overlap of personal and professional ethics.  Your humble servant does not see them as separate compartments.  If we bully outside of work, we are going to bully at work.  Our personalities do not change between outside personal behavior and inside work behavior.  In the end, our ethical system is "seamless," and it does not really separate personal and professional behavior habits. Thanks.  Dr. Rux