Recently, the public of Malaysia has been tampered with news involving Ethics. These ranges from politics, business related and even consumer issues. Scholars, academicians, journalist and even fellow citizens have been curious where the ethics of Malaysian gone.
In politics, came out news explaining why a candidate for a party is found guilty of money politics yet only being warned and the other one found guilty for the offence and has been sentenced for the immoral act. Debates filled all over places and explanation spurred by relevant parties explaining the reason of ‘found guilty but warned’ and ‘found guilty; sentenced’.
I still remember that “law has to be taken as complete.” Here should not be any in moral act behind the decision made. Promises given to the public that a clean party election will be the doctrine of the party and later the outcome is almost saddened every walking citizens.
In politics, came out news explaining why a candidate for a party is found guilty of money politics yet only being warned and the other one found guilty for the offence and has been sentenced for the immoral act. Debates filled all over places and explanation spurred by relevant parties explaining the reason of ‘found guilty but warned’ and ‘found guilty; sentenced’.
I still remember that “law has to be taken as complete.” Here should not be any in moral act behind the decision made. Promises given to the public that a clean party election will be the doctrine of the party and later the outcome is almost saddened every walking citizens.
According to Kant; ethic theorist, “Something that wishes to be made a rule must be accepted completely by the community and not the hypothesis.” Kant then continues that, “To form universalism, a law must be fixed as complete and not hypothesis.”
While these debates were ongoing in the main media stream, I went for a leave during a short public holiday at Cherating by the virtue escaping from all the national issues. My destination was the 'beach of beauty' in East Malaysia where Club Med had their club present. The decision was made after I have read the advertisement published in the web.
While these debates were ongoing in the main media stream, I went for a leave during a short public holiday at Cherating by the virtue escaping from all the national issues. My destination was the 'beach of beauty' in East Malaysia where Club Med had their club present. The decision was made after I have read the advertisement published in the web.
I spend two days at a nice, quite and reputable resort, not far from Club Med. It is fantastic, with the marvelous food presented to me by the people of Cherating and the beautiful sandy beach. Every day I spent at the beach, reading books, bathing with my children and we took morning stroll early of each day.
On the early morning of the last day, I walk by the beach until, i reached the river outlet to the sea – ‘Muara Sungai’ which is a few hundred meters from the resort. To my surprise, the beauty of the nearby beach has been damaged by erosions. I am quite sure that this might not be the act human being such as development or any immoral activities of any business organizations. However the question that ringers my mind is why none of the business organization whom has been making so much money from their beach resorts and having a continuous flow of visitors from Malaysia and abroad, take an effort to contribute for environment management; the social environment responsibility in a specific words. Not only that, they are not treating their customers well by allowing their customer facing such an eroding beach until the happiness of being at the beach turns to adventures and scary.
I still believe that there is a strong relation between business and ecology. There is also strong link between moral act and politics. I could feel that all this has been declining or never being looked upon seriously by fellow Malaysian and especially by many profitable business organizations. It is so much different from Australia that I have been for sometimes before which high social responsibilities awareness.
On the early morning of the last day, I walk by the beach until, i reached the river outlet to the sea – ‘Muara Sungai’ which is a few hundred meters from the resort. To my surprise, the beauty of the nearby beach has been damaged by erosions. I am quite sure that this might not be the act human being such as development or any immoral activities of any business organizations. However the question that ringers my mind is why none of the business organization whom has been making so much money from their beach resorts and having a continuous flow of visitors from Malaysia and abroad, take an effort to contribute for environment management; the social environment responsibility in a specific words. Not only that, they are not treating their customers well by allowing their customer facing such an eroding beach until the happiness of being at the beach turns to adventures and scary.
I still believe that there is a strong relation between business and ecology. There is also strong link between moral act and politics. I could feel that all this has been declining or never being looked upon seriously by fellow Malaysian and especially by many profitable business organizations. It is so much different from Australia that I have been for sometimes before which high social responsibilities awareness.
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Dear Sir, I believe that our education system is inadequate in preparing malaysian for advancement in life. thus short handedly we lack of understanding in a lot of things including ethics. Looking on our political scenario lately, the exemption of ethics is obvious.
I believe that malaysian should be expose with the fundamentals of ethics from the begining. Once we have exposure of ethics, we will do everything within the principles of ethics.
Dear mramli,
I truly agreed with your comments. I have always believe that it should start even from the house then followed by the school and university life. In Australia or New Zealand, why the people are so well mannered and their humanity is good, social respect is high? After some simple analysis, I realise that they starts ethics since childhood and from the house.
In Islam it did mentioned that we need to start such education while the child is in the womb but muslims had failed to do that.
Thank you for your comment. You seems to be a very analytical person.
Tq
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your reply.
Malaysians tend to equate ethics with their own feelings and derived actions based on grey judgement. This is reflected on every aspect or our life. Be it in business society, where ethics is blungeoned to non existence by greed, scarcity of respect and cronism. Only in malaysia you would be able to call black is white, yellow is green. Granting of business projects is based on whos who, connections, influence and kickbacks. Never were on merits, capabilities and trust. looking at the goverment administration of the country, the municipals, the state administrations, the policing of the enforcement agencies,the way we live our life and the environment affected by our actions, we really have to question our self.
How can we have basic ethics in our way of life and thinking?. Germany is a nation which is very strong in ethics. You can see from its people behaviour and attidtude. A friend of mine told me that once he saw a german couple waiting for the red light in freezing cold at 2am in the morning. there is no traffic but yet they waited patiently for the green light. this is a simple case where ethics has become the way of life. reading about germany history, this nation was destroyed by hitler and by the allied occupation. the society broke and millions of people were killed. At the end, A new society was born with new people, new thinking which enshrine ethics as way of life.
For us, muslims, we failed to understand our own religion. we were born muslims and thats the only merits. we have never cared to learn, investigate and practise. Islam is actually a religion based on ethics. When gabriel came to Muhammad in the cave of hira with gods revelations, what happened? did Muhammad got the revelation straight away? No. He was told by gabriel to read. to read, has simbolise that although he is a prophet of god, yet he has to learn to read. That to me is ethics.
Ethics was reflected in Islam strongly and yet we failed to see it.
Do malaysian need a great war to purify its society and to bleed new blood to replace the old blood? What we need is a stong acceptance towards change and a national plan to seed ethics as a tool to build the nation. We could implement ethics as one of the subject for the National service programmes and also in primary,secondary and university level.
For our society to progress, We must go back to the basics. thank you.
sir,
mramli i dont believe that our education system is inadequate in teaching ethics. didnt we have tatarakyat teachings before? then we were segregated into two...pendidikan islam and pendidikan moral.isnt this enough for a start and as a ground base? the thing is we have become result oriented rather than understanding. so the teachings of ethics remain in classroom only. finally i have a slogan for all to ponder "kepimpinan melalui teladan"
To me,i personally feels that in whatever we do in our daily lives ,the most important point is to set our goals and plan properly.Ethics was develop long time before man was created.Allah has place everything in order and we are suppose to follow the rules.But most of us choose not to follow it and instead try to be 'creative'. We jumble up things and starts pointing finger at others.Where is the rules?where is the ethics.I think it's Ethically wrong,legally wrong and morally wrong.
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