Ethics

The problem with ethics is that it tries to solve multifaceted problems with linear thinking about what is right or wrong. 

I believe a solution is to view ethics as a perceptual rather than a conceptual issue - how we see things versus how we think about them. 

We make ethical decision to the extent that we perceive a situation through compassion, hope, personal responsibility and humility. To the extent that we perceive situations through the opposite perceptions of defensiveness, fear, blame and self-centeredness, we are more likely to act in ways that are unethical.

Ethics becomes clearer when we start from a sense of the interconnectedness of all human beings and all of nature. Seeing our world through eyes of compassion, hope, personal responsibility, and humility allows us to recognize that. The machinery consists of how the social animal expands the field of perception in the individual - by co-opting the perceptions of others through communication.

It is the quality of that communhication (by word and deed) that determines the quality of the ethic. 

If you infer some kind of ideal in the word "ethic" then it would translate to a consistency of low-noise communication on the part of the individual. However, the individual can contrive to falsify such consistency - a thing we call "reputation". Falsification of such kinds requires concealment. In this way, a person can be regarded as a reliable "pillar of society" with all the benefits of high ethical regard, but in secret be a vile paedophile.

On top of this, all communication is facilitated through resonant empathetic pairs - they exist only in your head. It is true tha matched empathetic pairs converge between individuals, but will never attain perfect convergence

It is in the quality of our expanded perceptive field that our agency is enhanced - good information leads to effective results. An ethical communication will result in increased agency in the other - this is the basis of...