Ethics And Education

Today I am writing something on Ethics and Education (as we have been given an assignment in our Technical Comm. class :P). Here are some of my views:

Ethics are concerned with what is right or wrong, good or bad,responsible or irresponsible, obligatory or permissible, praiseworthy or blameworthy. It is associated with guilt, shame, indignation,empathy and compassion.
Ethics are norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
Ethics are about making choices that may not always feel good or seem like they benefit you but are the "right" choices to make. Ethics is something one has to feel for himself.

Ethics are the premise on which the whole social and corporate structure is functioning. The absence of ethics in our daily life can seriously hamper the progress of any nation. But what is being observed lately is that the ethical practices are blithely floundering. Here comes the need to incorporate the ethical education into our education system.
School education is something that we remember throughout our life. Thus if the seed of good ethics has to be sown we should catch the students young.
It is much easier to influence the DNA of a child in the right direction when he just starts to develop his thoughts.

It is very important to include ethical education as a compulsory part of the primary education. It should be given a high priority. Students will grasp the importance of ethics only when educators take it on an even plane with science and mathematics. If some fixed guidelines are not provided the students will end up making their own set of ethical codes.

Ethical guidelines will help students figure out for themselves what actions they should take when faced with ethical issues. Leaving it to the individual judgment is highly risky. Such an individual is more vulnerable to get misguided at any point of time.
Ethics education should incorporate not just teaching the code of professional or social conduct, but rather a process whereby individuals become more consciously involved in making ethical decisions.
One of the main goals of ethics education should be to encourage students to recognize social responsibilities within their profession and as citizens. Ethical education should be implemented to consistently reinforce the desired behaviors and to skillfully reduce the undesired ones.

Recent corporate accounting scandals have brought ethics back into the limelight. The sight of CEOs and CFOs parading into courtrooms has raised public awareness and concern about ethical behavior in management and accounting.
If India has to maintain its reputation of an ethical nation and lest another Satyam strikes hard at our roots we should implement a revolutionary ethical education system without wasting any more time!

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab

There have been a lot of discussions and debate regarding whether Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive in the midst of the Mumbai terror attacks on the November 26th, 2008 should be provided with an advocate to defend him or not.

I absolutely dont understand what is there to be defended? Should we defend him for the cold blooded murder of so many innocent people or for the killing of ATS chief Hemant Karkare  or because he has shown a lot of courage, not worrying about his life and dedicating himself completely to the Jihadist manifesto...and the list of the crimes is endlesss...

On one point I seem to agree with Bal Thackery that he should be hanged in the Mumbai streets mercilessly...or better Mr. Bal Thackery I would suggest just leave him for the people because he is the culprit of the citizens of India not just Mumbai. That would be a fitting tribute to all those people who were murdered in cold blood and also a lesson to the terrorists.

I was taken completely aback after reading some of the blogs: 

-> Yes. He should be defended. It is the hallmark of civilization and a practice in existence in India from time immemorial. No one is guilty until proved so is the basic principle which governs jurisprudence. As we are a civilised society, we must extend this.

Wow dude excellent ! You are the fitting candidate to defend this savage. 

In this land of the mahatma all types of criminals have human rights.This is called gandhigiri. If you leave Ajmal you will be hailed Gandhi's true follower.There 's a nobel peace prize waiting too.

-> If we dont give him a legal trial the terrorist organisations would become very angry and would next time strike India more brutally...we should look to pacify them and talk to them to achieve a friendly solution...

Disgusting cowards! Thats all I have to say.  

Shameless Kasab eats roti and chana masala and demands for non-veg daily. He wishes to meet Bipasha Basu too. Just see the courage. lol...

As far as defending him is concerned what his advocate gonna argue? What evidence he gonna show ?

He has been caught on live cameras and he has also accepted his crime.
That would  just be a wastage of time.

Do you remember what happened in the case of Mohammed Azar when his trial extended for 3 years? 

Do we want the same to happen again?

 What I think is Indian Constitution and the laws should be made dynamic rather than  rigid and inflexible. They should be commensurate to the fast changing or rather mushrooming crimes. 

If a person who poses such grave threat to the national security has to be defended in our country just because the laws require it to be so...then its a big shame for our country.