{"id":264712,"date":"2020-08-13T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=264712"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:33:02","slug":"consult-your-own-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/consult-your-own-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult Your Own Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before asking others whether something is ethical or not, first go on a long walk and ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Do *I* think this is ethical? Yes or no?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anything best to <em>NEVER<\/em> ask others whether your actions are ethical or not. My heuristic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asking others whether something you did was ethical or not, if probably wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t (this is why it is hounding your conscience). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus the maximally robust position in life: never do anything (no matter how others threaten or guilt you) which is contrary to your own personal code of morals and ethics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/ethics\/\">ETHICS by KIM<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-attachment-id=\"251011\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/plum1385\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DC-G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1594459415&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"selfie ERIC KIM talking vlog\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;selfie ERIC KIM talking vlog&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=2560%2C1440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"selfie ERIC KIM talking vlog\" class=\"wp-image-251011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLUM1385-scaled.jpg?resize=720%2C405&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/the-ethics-of-shit-talking\/\">The Ethics of Shit Talking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/09\/the-ethics-of-personal-enrichment\/\">The Ethics of Personal Enrichment<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/im-easily-distracted\/\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Easily Distracted<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/on-forming-your-own-opinion\/\">On Forming Your Own Opinion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/11\/eric-kim-philosophy-of-tolerance\/\">ERIC KIM Philosophy of Tolerance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/23\/tolerance\/\">Tolerance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/aesthetics-are-ethics\/\">Aesthetics are Ethics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/morality-and-ethics\/\">Morality and Ethics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before asking others whether something is ethical or not, first go on a long walk and ask yourself: Do *I* think this is ethical? Yes or no? If anything best to NEVER ask others whether your actions are ethical or not. My heuristic: If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asking others whether something you did was ethical or not, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/054F01D0-0825-4210-BCB2-2FE364673950.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264723,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264712\/revisions\/264723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}