Which of the following statements accurately describe a characteristic of ethics? Select all that apply
A) The ability to be ethical begins in young adulthood.
B) Ethics cannot be defined as a code of professional conduct.
C) Ethics usually refers to personal or communal standards of right and wrong.
D) It is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law, custom, and institutional practices.
E) Values are intimately related to, and direct, ethical conduct.
F) Ethics is a systematic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct.
A, C, D, E, F
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