Today’s fine distinction: Ethics vs Morals.
“Ethics” are intelligible, explicit, rational principals of right and wrong, defined by one’s social and/or professional community.
“Morals” are emotional, deep-seated, felt senses of right and wrong, defined by one’s conscience or god.
This, I think, is brilliant in terms of clarifying the distinction: while an unethical act may get you fired, an immoral act may land you in hell. Woohoo – fire, right there. Good stuff.
Oh, and diving even further into the two words, in a more academic setting, the two words once, actually, meant the same thing. “Ethics” was the greek word, and “Morals” the latin. As they began to differentiate, at least in the study of philosophy, “ethics” became the science of right and wrong, while “morals” became the practice. Interesting 🙂
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I’m so burned out, y’all. lol. It’s been so. much. socializing. All with people I love, to be clear. But it was literally four days of it in a row, and that’s after a decent dose of it last weekend, too. I’m done. For a while. And I think I’m getting a break, we’ll see.
I got to hang with Wolfie today. We had a great time at the batting cages. He really liked it! That was fun to see. He wanted to keep doing more. And then his hand hurt a bit because he’d done it so much. I took that as a good sign!
We played pokémon till the timer on his switch ran out (he’s only able to play it for 90 minutes in a day). And then we played Zelda on mine. And then we ate home made sushi together. He loved all of it. Good kid. He really really looks forward to spending time together. That makes me feel good. I like spending time with him too.
Woke up and did my writing, too. Wasn’t suuuuper productive with it, but I did it. And had some good ideas in there, too. The outline is coming along. Slowly. Drip by drip. But the momentum definitely builds the more consistent I am with my sessions. Of that there is no doubt. Going for a perfect week this week. I don’t think there’s anything in my way. Wish me luck!
Night night.