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Ethics are, in the end, a study of moral justification of our actions (or inaction) based on group-held rules. More simply put, ethics are a set of moral judgments that can influence and later thought to dictate a person’s or a group’s behavior. This supports for an often overlooked but necessary link to “system thinking” to ethics. Ethics has often ascribed to the negotiation of needs and morality as a linear action with no acknowledged feedbacks. But how do we really grapple with our moral compass? We are social. People set rules of moral expectation. We are embedded with people, and are buoyed about by decisions made amid environmental stressors. Often it is the people who hold most dear that affect us the most.
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Battle-Fisher, M. (2015). Ethical and Systematic Approaches to Health Policy. In: Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics. SpringerBriefs in Public Health(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12203-8_6
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