The category of descriptive ethics is the easiest to understand - it simply involves describing how people behave and/or what sorts of moral standards they claim to follow. Descriptive ethics incorporates research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, sociology and history as part of the process of understanding what people do or have believed about moral norms.
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It also involves common sense. Common sense comes from respecting notions from many people as they are expressed in plain language. For instance, “People do the right thing for the wrong reasons. And, people do the wrong thing for the right reasons”.
Americans tend to make moral judgments about people based upon their level of economic success. Everybody loves a winner, the saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in America. Winners are seen as virtuous, as people to admire and emulate. Losers get the opposite treatment — for their own good, mind you. As Marvin Olasky, an adviser to President George W. Bush, has said: “An emphasis on freedom should also include a willingness to step away for a time and let those who have dug their own hole ‘suffer the consequences of their misconduct’ and so now it goes you stole from the whole world and your err umm good works get their share on life’s irony…the very rich get their greed rewarded by huge losses AMEN!