Consider Exercise Five from Chapter 12 in the textbook shown below: Catherine Wilson maintains that ethics should make us somewhat uncomfortable with our position of privilege and should challenge our comfortable acceptance of a lifestyle of luxurious and aggressive consumption (particularly in light of widespread poverty and misery). For your initial post, answer the following questions:

In your opinion, what is the proper role of ethics?

Should ethics aim at formulating standards for minimally decent behavior within the culture and cultural values in which we live?

Considering Module Fours topic on justice, is there a just way to balance justice concerns with privilege and consumption? Provide reasoning and rationale for your thoughts.

In response to the initial posts of two of your peers, do the following for each response:

Do you agree with your peers view of ethics in a privileged society? Why or why not?

What do you think of your peers view of justice when considering a consumerist society? Provide reasoning and rationale for your thoughts.