Ethical Responsibility

I was really interested in our discussion of ethics this week. After reviewing the notes from class, I noticed that with freewill vs determinism, some of the questions included: "If everything in the universe obeys unchanging physical laws, how can humans have free will? And without free will, how can we be morally responsible for our actions?" For a second, I agreed with why these questions must be asked, but then I really thought about it. Everything is only expected to obey unchanging physical laws. These are laws that we as a society have come to respect. It is our free will as human beings that gives us the right to choose whether not we follow those laws. The very existance of these laws actually makes it more imperative that we hold ourselves morally responsible. Being aware that we have a choice to abide by these moral laws yet choosing not to, makes us fully responsible for conciously making the ethically wrong choice.