How do people determine what is right and what is wrong, good or bad? How many times in one’s lifetime must he or she be faced with that question? Is the right choice always the moral choice, and who decides that it was, in fact, the correct choice? When it comes to ethical questions, there seem to be blurred lines from what is right and what is wrong. Merriam-Webster Dictionary outlines ethics as “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation,” also as a “set of moral principles: a theory or system of moral values,” (ethic, defs. 1 and 2a). Could it be that a person’s morals are strongly tied to how that person was raised or is it deeper, such as keeping their own personal interest in mind? One such way to gauge the differences between right and wrong would mean to take “crimes”, such as theft or stealing, and apply it into today’s cultural context. It can be inferred, therefore, that the modern basis for the righteousness of crimes should be measured using the antiquated, yet applicable, Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want others to do to you.…