Food Comes First, Ethics Later

Ethics plays an important role to get recognized in the society. But food comes first. Food is the basic (psychological) need of human being. If he is starving then he will become weak or unhealthy and an unhealthy person dies daily.

Once his basic needs (food, shelter, clothing) are fulfilled then he will get motivated to fulfill his higher level needs (such as ethics etc).

I agree with this. If your tummy is full you look civilized, educated and well personality. Your mind is satisfied and if you are creative and balanced, your mind provoke you to do well things. Hence, ethics is shown in your work. If your tummy is empty, how can you satisfy your mind. Hence, you shows your anger for that situation and to overcome that situation you will do all works which are unethical.

Yes. I too think that food comes first, ethics later. As said even by our elders "HEALTH IS WEALTH". If we are not well (physically or mentally) , how can we be able to interact with others, do and manage our work effectively or participate actively in any event? So, in my view, it is the food that must be given preference over the ethics.

Hi friends!

This is Hema. I agree to some extent that food comes first, ethics next. Food is the basic need for all. And we people earning by some means just to fill our bellies. How much we strive hard, its only to satisfy our hunger.

We should not earn by illegal methods. Hunger drives us to commit to the worst situations. But we should mostly see that in this search process we should not commit ourselves to immoral acts.

For me, food does not come first but ethics. If we do not want to sound ethical, breathe ethical, live ethical, then what is the use of education? For food aka money, we can steal, we can beg, then why to waste both energy and time in learning the a basics of life. Ethics is the gap between what we call a civilized person and a non civilized person.

For me ethics comes first because there is no use of surviving. We need to live our life. We can take example of freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh who have not taken food for several days in prison because he wanted free India.

There are several examples where human being have given there life for ethics. There is no use of merely surviving. We should live our life. If everyone is ethical there is no problem in the system.

Friend as per my views, food comes first because ethics come from peace and constant mind and one needs proper feeding to think about it which a hungry man don't has. So he is not able to judge what is ethical or not. Hence good food is paramount to think better.

Food comes 1st. Is it? We are not animals, we are Human.

Just consider an example - when Maharana Pratap were in jungle, her daughter had two rotis of grass in which she gave one to his younger brother even she were too hungry. If food comes first then she had theft of his brother. So I think we should be ethical otherwise food can get be get under gunpoint and we will be animal in the face of human.

Food and ethics are equally important for human society. Otherwise we would be just animals.

So many responses say that food comes first because it is necessary for survival. That sounds noble and we may maintain that view until we are on the receiving end; For example, when a hungry, desperate man, with a weapon, a gun maybe, has entered our home.

We would want that hungry man to have some principle, some ethics; to respect our lives, the lives of our loved ones, to respect our right to our property. We would want that hungry man to act with principle, to ask first rather than to take; to think it below him to steal, in spite of his hunger.

Food and ethics are equally important. Otherwise we would be living in a jungle.

I agree with the statement food comes first but at the same time ethics are also important because without ethics we'll be even like a terrorist or murderer or a sadist or we can even do corruption then what is the use of this birth? everyone wants to lead their life very happily but is it write getting happiness in a wrong way? I don't think so. So both food and ethics are important for every life.