There are many things that will inspire us throughout our lives and teach us how to all live ethical and moral lives. One of the biggest lessons that I have been taught and live by on a day to day basis is, “Treat others like you want to be treated.” It is a simple rule to live by and it has guided me through many tough decisions in my life. I will go over where I was taught this and share a story about how I have used this belief.
This saying comes from a bible verse, Luke 6:31, which states, “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Biblehub, 2000) I grew up in a Christian family and this is where I was taught this belief. I went to church, as often as my grandmother came to visit, or vice versa, but I do not identify myself as being Christian. Even though today I identify myself more as Agnostic, this verse was something that I took to heart and made as one of my basic ethical beliefs. A story about how I utilized this belief is in trying to be as helpful of a person to those around me as possible.…show more content… One instance that I stuck to my core beliefs of this was during my most recent deployment. There was an individual I was deployed with whose father was very sick. His father had a very rapidly deteriorating condition that he was trying to get home to see him and get his affairs in order before he passed. Getting him home proved to be a very difficult task due to our commander’s discretion, the information that the Red Cross was getting from the hospital, and backlogs of test results. I had helped him on a daily basis to be able to get back home. On one such occasion, after a twelve hour shift, I stayed behind with the member to perfect a correspondence to his home station’s commander and first sergeant to plead his case to be released from the deployment early to see his father before he
