For example,
traditional ethics treated masturbation as a more serious sin than rape, since the former «wasted the seed» while the latter preserved the biological structure of procreation!
For this reason, much of
traditional ethics has been concerned with familial relationships.
After many pages surveying the history of ethics, his conclusion is that the future of ethics as a serious discipline presupposes the collapse of
traditional ethics.
Advocates claim further that the «
traditional ethic» has plunged people into precipitous and disastrous marriages.
They note that
the traditional ethic takes no account of the vastly extended period that now exists between the onset of puberty and the age when marriage is possible and appropriate.
The recognition that the nonhuman animal is an end in itself and not merely a means to human ends explodes the assumption of
traditional ethics.
It also provides grounds for accepting and deepening contemporary feminist criticism of
the traditional ethic of maternal self - sacrifice, which reinforces the female problematic.
The recognition that every animal is an end in itself and not merely a means to human ends explodes the assumptions of
our traditional ethics.
In 2010, it was also suggested that the journalistic approach of such newspapers at the News of the World had brought into public focus that there had been a shift away from
the traditional ethics of journalism, raising serious questions about privacy, freedom of speech, and confidentiality.