1) Consider your own personal values and explain where they originated. Can you pinpoint their origins? To what degree have you chosen your own values? To what degree are your own values products of your family, your religious or cultural background, or your generation? Does it matter where values from from?

2) Review the distinction between personal morality and matters of social ethics. Can you think of cases in which some decisions would be valuable as a matter of social policy but bad as a matter of personal ethics? Something good as a matter of personal ethics and bad as a matter of social policy?

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3) Describe the qualities you believe are necessary in an "ethical leader." Provide support for your contentions and explain why a leader should display these qualities in order to be considered "ethical" from your perspective. Then identify someone you believe embodies these qualities in her or his leadership and provide examples.

Please answer and provide sources for each question in order.

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