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Listening is my new theme. I want to talk about it over and over again because nobody is listening.

A link to an article By Simon in the SMH this morning talks about the all pervasive principle of the 'end justifying the means', or the "we will do what it takes" attitude around stopping the boats/ asylum seekers.

I’d just spent the day listening to employees sharing issues.

Did you know that we all have different Ethical Literacy styles? That we use different assumptions about our choices and decisions and reactions to events that occur based on our preferred implicit code of values and principles? Some people make decisions based on assessments of care for others or of implications for character; others on the basis of duty or consequences.

I heard today of a senior manager saying to his team, “I’ve been told by management to tell you we are building a values based culture”.

How often do we engage in self righteous justifications or proclaim peoples' rights to do anything from spending the rent money to killing another in the name of honour? Last night Australian moral philosopher, Raimond Gaita (Romulus My Father) spoke at the St James Ethics Centre Forum series.