Chapter 12

"Communication ethics is the call to learn about differing views of the good assumed by differing positions" (213). With that being said, one must know the good that is being promoted before judging whether it is the right thing to do or not. Communication ethics is important for both public and private life. Diversity and differences is not something that limits communication ethics. Diversity and differences, on the other hand, is one of the things that makes communication ethics important. "The diversity and difference before us takes us to a public sphere of required communication ethics literacy as we seek to read and understand a good protected and promoted by a group or an individual person" (220).
In the "Communication Ethics and the Public Domain" part in this chapter, the book use how shooting incidents have become very common today compares to yesterday as an example. Shooting in schools, especially, has become something that sadly not rare anymore. School is supposed to be a place where kids gain knowledge and be protected but nowadays, school has become a place where shootings happen regularly. There are bombing everywhere too. Not only in Paris, but other developed countries as well.  Thus, the security in the airport has become super tight compared to the past. However, we can not expect people to agree with us all the time. We see shootings and bombing as something that is wrong, unethical, and something that should not be done as a common sense. I'm not saying that the shooters and bombers can be justified for what they have done, but after reading all these chapters in the book, it made me realize that we really can't expect people to have the same way of thinking as we do. Even your best friends can have different opinion than you. "One can turn to less catastrophic events by asking the question, "Can you depend on your friends to have public agreement on what is ethical in their dealings with you?"" (219).