While there are many things to learn in school and in life, it is important to recognize that good learning requires a solid foundation. This thus signifies that it needs to be made clear to society that an ethical society will make for a much better construct than one that doesn’t pay much attention to ethics and its importance. That is to say, business is conducted in a way and manner in which it is presumed that each side is trustworthy and will honor their commitments, and when this is not the case, it makes for bad business for both parties. So too, lying and cheating in our personal interactions, thus makes for a society in which, because we don’t trust the words and promises being made by the other, we thus distance ourselves from them, for our protection and for our safekeeping, which hurts the cohesiveness of society.
It is vital to impress upon our citizenry that ethics has its place, because a society without trust, without integrity, and without people’s words being reliable, makes for a sick society, which will be reflected thereby in our crime rates, our uneasiness, and our overall dissatisfaction, because when a significant portion of the population is trying to “get over” on the other, we are left with a dysfunctional society that isn’t going to be healthy in the present, and won’t be good in the future.
When it comes to etiquette, we need to realize that first impressions mean an awful lot to an awful lot of people, and those that display a lack of manners, while possibly being good people, are firstly perceived as being something less than the other, which makes for the type of relationship which won’t be at the level that it should and ought to be. In society, we are expected to at a minimum, to be respectful of others and to show consideration to others, in the understanding that social interactions have a certain harmony which is expected to be given one to the other, and when this is lacking, it makes for the type of snap judgment that separates one from the other which isn’t good for healthy relationships.
Look, the bottom line is that we prefer that our relationships, personal as well as business, be with those that we respect, of which the people and businesses that we respect often consist of those that we perceive as being people that are true to their word and true thereby to their commitments. This is what we desire, because we do not have the time, nor do we wish to expend the energy to have to supervise or oversee everything that we have come to an agreement on, and thereby we want to believe that a promise made is going to be a promise kept. When, on the other hand, promises are merely a way to deceive the other, or to trick the other, then we have the type of society in which we are perpetually looking over our shoulders, keeping our doors locked, and not trusting one another, which makes for a troubled society and is reflected thereby in the ills displayed by such.