Food Comes First, Ethics Later

Sex workers sell themselves to get their daily loaf of bread. Prostitution is considered a sin, but they do it to fill their stomach. "Food comes first, ethics later" would be the thought running in their mind whenever their profession is questioned.

According to me, food will always be coming first from ethics. Because as we know that all humans are to the world to doing some work and spend their life happy. For doing work and spending happy life we require energy to do work so life will spend happily. By the principle of law of conservation of energy, we required some previously maintained energy which obviously comes from food. That's why food comes first, as we satisfied we with basic need we concentrate on secondary need that is society. In which each human has its own prospective and living manner. To maintaining this we required ethical values. Therefore food comes first ethics later.

For sure food come first of all ethics. All creatures are engineered to do almost for survival. People does not hesitate to sell off their own kids for food. So it is unwise to say that ethics come first. There may be few who give priority to ethics than food. Anyway this universe is full of exceptional cases. But here we are discussing about normal peoples. Miss Neha have a very good point but a person can be a patriotic only and only when he is well fed and well educated . For a poor person there is no differance. Naxals are the best examples of this fact. They doesn't bother to kill their own countrymen just for money only. Do you think that naxalism is a war of idealogy? It is just a war of hunger. They poor people even doesn't know what is naxalism is all about. They are simple being targeted by neibour countries, who wants to encash this food fact for distablising india.

Hi, all, according to my opinion food is the prior factor rather than ethical values, see for eg if we keep a plate of food in front of a kid who is starving and start to say or tell him about the ethical values he must acquire in his life, he will never learn anything or understand its values, but he will search for food than can cure his appetite. Food plays a major role than ethics because a bunch of ethical values can never substitute the hunger of a person.

Definitely it is food that comes first. I came across an incident while I was watching discovery. There was a family who had been trapped in between the icebergs. Cause of the low temperature in that region all the family members had died except the two sisters. They were really starving at that point but nothing was available for them to eat. Suddenly one of the sisters cut the mother's body and started eating it. This was definitely unethical. But we all must be aware of the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. This exampe truely proves that life is the first priority for which a person can always become unethical.

The way we think, the same way we present ourself. If gandhiji had not given importance to ethics, we might not have got freedom. It's all depends upon the circumstances prevailing in our life. No doubt food comes first, but to lead a meaningful and respectful life ethics are also important. They must go hand in hand. If a human is made to starve for a day, obiouslly he comes to the importance of food. And due to the high moral values of our great leaders, India has gots its freedom.

In my opinion food comes and will comes first than ethics. When you don't have the source of survival that is food you would not go for maintaining or system your own status for better, good or kind appearance.

For example in the starting of civilization man's character were surviving for food type but as the civilization developed then the so called religion, government, system comes into the picture.

Thus food comes first and ethics later, but nowadays it also depends upon the individuals as all of you said.

Hi Guys,

It depends on how the situation indulges a common person in different fragments of life, In modern society, its obligatory on every being to respect other customs and cultures, India is a country with an enormous variety of foods and every group has own ethical values, being a countrymen one must consider the ethics and accordingly consume the foods.

It's really surprising why my friends forgeting the contribution of lagends like Bhagat Singh, who surpassed this notion of food being a basic necessary and showed that if you respect your ethics, the history will remember you as an exception.

Hi ,i believe both are necessary at their places as you can't eat your ethics and vice versa e.g a beggar who want food for his survival cant think of ethics and stop begging just because his ethics don't allow this as no one become beggar from his own choice likewise for a respectful living in society you put your ethics first to have food and other basic necessities.