According to you it impossible to act unethically, and/or your personal ethics must be consistently determined by your actions. I can essentially behave entirely arbitrarily and to you I will be obeying my own true code of ethics.
Not at all. It’s certainly possible to act unethically, such as if you’re inconsistent, or if you have mistaken beliefs about what’s ethical. What you can’t do is intentionally do something while consciously thinking that it’s unethical. For example, you can’t think “I’ll torture these children, even though torturing children is wrong”—not if you believe that torturing children is wrong.
It is true that people are sometimes inconsistent because sometimes they act according to their habits instead of deliberately, or because strong emotions overwhelm them and they forget to do what they believe to be correct. But if that were the main explanation for why people don’t always do what they believe to be right, I would expect people to have the feeling of “Oops, I forgot! and messed up” more often than they seem to. Instead, something like “It’s wrong, but I’m going to do it anyway” seems to be more common, which implies that they don’t really think it’s wrong.
Not at all. It’s certainly possible to act unethically, such as if you’re inconsistent, or if you have mistaken beliefs about what’s ethical. What you can’t do is intentionally do something while consciously thinking that it’s unethical. For example, you can’t think “I’ll torture these children, even though torturing children is wrong”—not if you believe that torturing children is wrong.
It is true that people are sometimes inconsistent because sometimes they act according to their habits instead of deliberately, or because strong emotions overwhelm them and they forget to do what they believe to be correct. But if that were the main explanation for why people don’t always do what they believe to be right, I would expect people to have the feeling of “Oops, I forgot! and messed up” more often than they seem to. Instead, something like “It’s wrong, but I’m going to do it anyway” seems to be more common, which implies that they don’t really think it’s wrong.