Define “ethics” in your own words.

How much impact do you think ethics training in a police academy will have on the future ethical behavior of recruits? Can ethics be taught, or is each person’s concept of “right and wrong” permanently shaped in childhood? Explain your answer.



Answer :

Ethics is the sense one has of the difference between what’s defined as right and wrong.

Ethics training in a police academy will have a huge impact on the future ethical behavior of recruits. This is because police officers are taught different standards compared to what a normal citizen learns or at default considers to be morally reprehensible.

Ethics can be taught. Although different people are raised in different standards and methods, a sense of what is wrong can be taught in a way that sticks to one’s mind. One’s concept of what’s “right and wrong” can be altered simply through experience; once somebody experiences something that can have an open-ended outcome, they will see a difference with what they did and what they maybe didn’t do that could affect what happened.