Ethical Issues In Slavery

When the United States became a country in 1776, slavery existed long before then. Public opinions and laws referencing slavery are different from state to state and person to person. It is always a controversial topic. It stirs up the emotions of people today, in which we concede from the impacts. While some will argue that the issue of war is not driven by slavery, it is almost impossible to view war without discussing slavery. In the world today, slavery still exists in one form or another.
Ethics and opinions
Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to well founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Secondly, ethics refers to the study and development of one's ethical …show more content…
Since government represents all the people and not just those who share the faith of particular government officials the First Amendment prevents the government from establishing religion, in its inappropriate government policy based on religious doctrine. Prophets who speaks for God or who has a superior interpretation of scripture should not form the basis for policy making. In the case of slavery, not many had a choice to be a slave or not to be a slave. It wasn’t a right or wrong, it’s just what they did. It was the way of life. In today’s world our opinions about slavery are irrelevant. There was nothing we could’ve done to change the outcome. Yet, as we obtain knowledge of slavery and the Bible we have a better understanding of history. As a personal responsibility, when confronted in an argument, I would share my beliefs in form of religion. Me, personally, I can honestly say slavery wasn’t right or wrong. I see why they did it, but maybe it could’ve been done with more empathy for the