What Are Your Morals & Values? When you arrive in the Senate chamber, you bring a set of morals, values, and ethical considerations that guide how you interact with fellow senators, presenters, agencies and bureaus, other SGA officers, and guests. This set of morals, values, and ethical considerations should affect how you vote, what bills or resolutions you sponsor, and how you vote for bills and resolutions.
Values: your individual standards of what is valuable or important Morals: the rightness or wrongness of actions or ideas Ethics: a generally-accepted standard of morality Values are the most flexible and change over time. Morals can also change over time, but have much more specific orientations (good vs. bad) than values. Ethics can change over time, but must have general acceptance among society.
Example: I specifically value tolerance and respect of others opinions. My morals tell me that I am not a good person if I am intolerant or disrespectful of others opinions. Ethical guidelines will determine whether my values of tolerance and respect of others opinions match those of the place and time I occupy.
Use the space below to outline the following
What are my specific values?
What do my morals tell me about my role as a senator?
What ethics are related to my role as a student and public servant of the Florida State University student body?
What is my plan to make value-driven, morally-focused, and ethically-sound as a senator?
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