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    This document discusses ethics in politics. It notes that ethics concerns what is right and wrong, while politics encompasses government, policy, and expressing beliefs, all of which have ethical considerations. It states that political ethics is highly debated given its public nature. Additionally, the distinction between ethics and politics is sometimes artificial, as political action is sometimes necessary to achieve ethical goals. The relationship between ethics and politics is like that between truth and deception, as politicians often find ethics inconvenient. Maintaining high ethical standards among citizens and leaders is important for any political system to fulfill its goals.

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    This document discusses ethics in politics. It notes that ethics concerns what is right and wrong, while politics encompasses government, policy, and expressing beliefs, all of which have ethical considerations. It states that political ethics is highly debated given its public nature. Additionally, the distinction between ethics and politics is sometimes artificial, as political action is sometimes necessary to achieve ethical goals. The relationship between ethics and politics is like that between truth and deception, as politicians often find ethics inconvenient. Maintaining high ethical standards among citizens and leaders is important for any political system to fulfill its goals.

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    Ethics in Politics

    Business Ethics & Corporate Governance- Sec -E

    Submitted By- Rahul Chandalia ( 08BS


    0002495 )

    For : Prof. TMC Varadarajan


    Ethics in Politics

    Ethics concerns itself with the study of what is right and what is wrong.
    Various teachers through history have attempted to explain what ethics is
    and how ethics should work. The best procedure to study ethics is in its
    historical matrix.

    Politics encompasses a wide variety of activities, from government elections


    and office holding to public policy and expressing ideological beliefs. For
    each of these actions, there are ethical considerations and consequences.

    No discipline is more visible, thus political ethics is a hotly debated and very
    public arena.

    Indeed, the difference between ethics and politics seems to me artificial, if


    there is a significant difference at all. Sometimes the distinction is a matter
    of scale. If one guy robs you, it's ethics, but when 435 people rob you, its
    politics--or the House of Representatives is in session. But surely the
    deliberations of that body are subject to ethical analysis. What's more,
    politics can be a necessary expression of ethics. Often the only way to
    achieve an individual ethical goal is through group endeavor--i.e., politics.

    Some political questions are not essentially ethical but a matter of two
    competing interests, each with a morally legitimate claim. Politics is the
    highest form of all social activities. It involves the understanding and
    knowledge of the state and the craft of conducting it. Since the inception of
    this phenomenon, several approaches to its study have evolved which are
    speculative, prescriptive, or even scientific in nature. Ethics as a relative
    study has always remained associated with politics, either conjointly or
    adversely. When it was said that politics is a profession of scoundrels, it
    completely dissociated ethics from politics and considered it to be an act of
    disaster! Law then came to its rescue and thus started a never-ending saga
    of politico legal affair. Social structure and value system have shaped law to
    its various forms at different civilizations. The conflicts between the two
    forces have been a constructive force in social action and the ultimate
    formation of a just and strong society.

    By all means, politics is a dirty game. It is not a game of definite rules.


    Politics is exactly like a free-wrestling game; you can use everything; you
    can kick, punch, slap, or even kill. And if you killed, your lawyers can free you
    safely because it is a game. And once the game has started, you can never
    change the rules.

    The two pieces of advice I can give to you, as an expert player in the dirty
    game, is either you leave the dirty game for the dirty players who can never
    change their filthy style, or for the stubborn players who are ready to kill or
    to martyrize so that cleanliness may prevail. The second one is if you chose
    to play, never leave the battlefield, NEVER!!!!

    “If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us that a good politician,


    under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

    Ethics and Politics are usually seen with a relationship whereby one's ethics
    decide one's politics. What you think is moral and immoral determines what
    you think should be legal and illegal. I don't exactly think of it like that. The
    relationship between ethics and politics is the same as the relationship
    between truth and deception. Politicians find ethics inconvenient just as liars
    find truth inconvenient. Politics and lies deliberately conceal and negate
    ethics and truth.

    Political language is a language of lies. All political words reflect this. When
    you see a political lie, translate it to an ethical vocabulary. By doing this, you
    can make anyone who habitually uses political lies look like an idiot by using
    an equivalent ethical truth.

    One of the main weaknesses in most plans to upgrade the condition of


    humanity through the creation of innovative political systems is that there is
    usually no innovative "companion" plan to upgrade and maintain the ethical
    standards of the citizenry to be involved. No political system--no matter how
    humane in its design and intent--can fulfill its own idealistic promise unless
    all of its citizens, both on the leadership level and in the rank and file,
    maintain consistently high standards of ethics. Ethics is more fundamental
    than jurisprudence for the proper functioning of politician.

    That is to say, ethics is at the basis of both sound politics and economics.
    Ethics is essential for the health (Politics) and wealth (economics) of a
    community.
    Caselet
    Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh had a reputation for instilling in its cadres
    certain traits, like discipline, character and a spirit for social service. It was
    considered that BJP which drew its cadres mainly from RSS was thus made of
    superior human material.

    Even from the angle of communalism, the general view was that people from
    RSS owing, as they do, allegiance to Hinduism, might be excessively zealous
    but were not fanatics. They could show greater flexibility and tolerance
    towards others, as was amply proved during the BJP led NDA regime.

    On the whole, while most people went along with the description of BJP as a
    non-secular party, they considered that, because of the RSS influence, BJP
    could be considered as having a much greater proportion of disciplined,
    service-oriented and ethical leaders placing service above self.
    Lately, this formulation about the BJP is increasingly being shown up as a
    myth.
    It was Shankar Singh Vaghela of Gujarat who probably dealt the first
    spectacular blow to RSS's character building propensities .More recently,
    Madanlal Khurana, Uma Bharti and Kalyan Singh have demonstrated their
    inability to place discipline, party and public interest above the demands of
    their inflated egos and love for power.

    The voter, however, made these leaders smell dust shattering their self-
    made images. The voters’ solitary rebuff in these cases is not being seen by
    other egotist leaders as a general vote in favour of discipline and principles
    in as much as the trend is not showing signs of being stemmed.
    Other bigger egos are coming forward to expose themselves. I have Bhairon
    Singh Shekhawat in mind.
    Whatever fate he meets and leads the party to meet, I do admire the party
    standing firm and not yielding to him. Conflicts arising from personal issues,
    like the son is being not accommodated, for example, do not constitute
    issues of principle. What encourages unprincipled politics is undoubtedly the
    willingness of competing parties to welcome so called rebels into their fold.

    The most unfortunate aspect of today's party politics is that the only thing
    that matters to a party is its numbers in the legislature, howsoever
    constituted. A person in BJP may be proclaimed by Congress as blatantly
    communal but the moment he joins Congress, he becomes pure secular. The
    voter fully realizes this but is unable to act immediately. So the politicians
    can make hay while the sun shines and go on descending from depth to
    depth. The country of course is nobody's business. But hope never dies.

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