“Ethics unsettle the existing certainties that you have,” he says. “Be careful when you take the stopper out of this bottle because you can’t do that and expect nothing to change. Once the genie’s out change is inevitable.” So observes Dr Simon Longstaff, head of Sydney’s St James Ethics Centre. He was commenting in a newspaper article on people living ethically. He says those he feels most sorry for are people whose work lives conflict with their personal ethics. “One of the saddest things is seeing a person whose life is at odds with what they think or believe is right or good.” The article profiles a small collection of people who have consciously chosen…

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