Values, Ethics And Morals - Which Is Most Important To You?

[Lee]

Out of the three, when it comes to the online adult industry and how you do business, which of the three would you say is most important to you?

For me i would say it was 'values' over anything, without a good set of values i think that ethics and morals can be skewed, even if they are considered for the right reasons.

So what about you folks, do values, ethics or morals have a more important role in your business?

Regards,

Lee

[MiamiB]

For me it is ethics. While values can vary from culture to culture and even within a culture I find that ethics is much more universal and without as much openness for interpretation. The same thing with morals, all over the place.

[chadknowslaw]

I think morals are subjective -- my moral standards are probably different from others and that is OK. Values the same way.

Ethics are more objective, so I think I would have to answer that ethics are the most important of those three choices.


I tell my clients to do business as if their mother will find out everything they do (assuming they give a shit about mom's opinion -- but you get the idea). Basically do the right thing the first time, admit mistakes if they happen, don't lie, don't cheat and don't steal. That's about all I ask.

[gaybucks_chip]

I guess I think of all of that under one umbrella that I think of as "integrity."

Your word (and the word of your company) is only meaningful if you have a track record of standing behind what you say.

That isn't to say that people's views or decisions don't change over time as new information or situations arise... but at the same time, I think everyone has integrity when there's no cost to it. Where the rubber meets the road is when there's a real cost to integrity... standing up for someone (or some company) when doing so might cost you business, piss other people off, etc, or doing something that will cost you a bunch of money you didn't plan on because you committed to it in advance... that sort of thing.

When people know that you will always do what you've said you're going to do, then you find it much easier to get people to work with you, or to to business with you.

And sadly, that's a relatively rare thing these days.

I dunno if this is off-topic or on-topic, but I guess for me all three sort of blend together.

[maxx68]

I guess I think of all of that under one umbrella that I think of as "integrity."

Your word (and the word of your company) is only meaningful if you have a track record of standing behind what you say.

That isn't to say that people's views or decisions don't change over time as new information or situations arise... but at the same time, I think everyone has integrity when there's no cost to it. Where the rubber meets the road is when there's a real cost to integrity... standing up for someone (or some company) when doing so might cost you business, piss other people off, etc, or doing something that will cost you a bunch of money you didn't plan on because you committed to it in advance... that sort of thing.

When people know that you will always do what you've said you're going to do, then you find it much easier to get people to work with you, or to to business with you.

And sadly, that's a relatively rare thing these days.

I dunno if this is off-topic or on-topic, but I guess for me all three sort of blend together.

gaybucks_chip hit it on the nose as far as I am concerned. I don't think someone's morals, values or ethics really mean much if they aren't put to the test. We can say we have morals, values and ethics, but if we don't utilize them they are just so many words.

[Squirt]

Academically speaking ones ethics are the basis for the values and morals one adopts, so to me ethics are the most important of the three

One would have to ask themselves which came first; ethics, morals or values?

Are the morals one is raised with the basis for which they create their own personal ethical code or is it based on the values demonstrated by the society within which one is raised?

Certainly us pornographers carry some kind of deficit, minimally a certain mutation, to be raised within a moralistic society yet take employment in a profession that is widely seen as lacking values, ethics and morals. What gives?