PERSONAL VALUES AND PERSONALITY

You owe it to yourself to decide upon a code of personal ethics which you consider humane, to adopt it, to reconsider it from time to time, and to strive to uphold it. You won’t always win friends by acting in accordance with your code; in fact, you’ll antagonize people from time to time. The study of how our actions affect us brings inevitably to the need for a code of ethics. We cannot live without some value system; and for the sake of our own stability we must adhere to the ethics dictated by whichever system we choose. Since our code of ethics contains our most important attitudes toward other people and toward ourselves, we ought to consider it carefully and reconsider it often.