An Ethics Comparison Between the Military and Business Professional: Does Society Hold the Military Professional to a Higher Standard? by Raymond P Wilson (Paperback / softback, 2012)
Every individual possesses a morality compass. A morality compass is an individual's inner voice that provides guidance whenever an ethical dilemma presents itself. I firmly believe that an individual's morality compass is calibrated through innate kwledge, personal experiences, personal values, and organizational affiliations. In this research paper, I will focus on the organizational affiliation aspect. Society employs a set of ethical standards that it expects all individuals to follow. The question that this paper attempts to address is whether or t society's baseline standard is equally applied to all elements of society, or does society single out certain groups and hold those groups to a higher ethical standard. In an effort to present sound background information on the military's standard of ethics, I have reviewed the work of numerous authors in the area of military ethics. I have performed the same actions to gain kwledge of standard business ethics and standard society ethics.