My personal code of ethics:

I can only talk about my personal (real life) experiences.

Also:

My personal truths are not universal ones.

Also:

I can and should only recommend things that I do or have bought with my money.

Further:

Act on the internet as if however I acted, what I did behind closed doors were leaked.

More thoughts

For example, when it comes to racial politics, I cannot speak for other races. Nor do I think I have the “right” to stand up for the right of others. For me, to stand up for other “oppressed” people seems very disingenuous and disrespectful. I can only speak for my own experiences growing up Asian-American/Korean-American in the Bay Area, New York, etc.

Also, I can share my personal experiences and thoughts on what it means to be an American, why I prefer America the most (out of other countries I have traveled to and lived in), and I can share my personal vision of America. But my personal truths only apply to me. My personal and private virtues only exist for me. Others shouldn’t do as I do, nor should they think the way I think. My encouragement is:

To help empower others to think for themselves, and to have the guts and audacity to think for themselves, act for themselves, and speak their mind without fear.

Private virtues

Also, when it comes to my personal virtues or “good acts”, I don’t like to broadcast it so publicly. Why? When you broadcast your virtues to others (virtue flexing) it becomes disingenuous. It essentially becomes:

I only do virtuous things in order to be applauded for it.

Nassim Taleb calls it ‘virtue signaling’.