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As you will probably remember, there is a difference between morality and ethics.

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Morality refers to the individual rules of behavior of a person, what they think is right or wrong.

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Ethics, on the other hand, is an explanation about why some things are right or wrong.

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So it is a reflection about morality, and actually it is a part of philosophy.

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is ethics relevant today in the 21st century where we should be worried about economy and health

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and efficiency well of course it is in our modern technological world there are a lot of challenges

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that need reflection a lot of situations that can create a lot of problems and suffering to

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many people if we don't stop and think if our actions are correct or not. Let me give you some

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examples. As you know, we're facing a serious crisis in the world because of climate change.

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Now, what we do with our planet is an ethical responsibility, because not only ourselves are

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involved, but also the future generations. So we should carefully think about what we're doing,

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which are our actions, because we are affecting other people and even people that haven't even

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been born today. Or think about technology, computers, the apps that we use every day,

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how they can, for example, know a lot of data about us. What is correct to do in this situation?

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Is it right that some companies own your data or know a lot of things about you? How should we

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treat, for example, artificial intelligence. There are a lot of challenges there, and we should stop

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and think what is right and wrong to do in this case. Or biotechnology. Imagine that in a future

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we could cure diseases, or we could enhance human abilities, or we could, for example, make that an

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old person looks younger and never dies. This might seem science fiction today, but in the future,

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However, if these kind of things are possible, they will pose serious ethical problems and

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we should stop and think what is right or wrong to do.

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So ethics is relevant today because there are many threats to human dignity even in

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our modern world and there are a lot of situations in which human rights are violated.

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So we should stop and think and take ethics seriously.