The color of ethics
Marilyn Fischer, 2000
“It’s such a grey area” we often hear, when difficult ethical situations come up. Grey is the colour of fog, of cloudy dull skies without clarity or edges. In ethical reflection, we sometimes feel as if we are navigating in a fog with no landmarks and no sense of direction. Grey is also a colour made by mixing black and white. Sometimes, in our ethical reflections, we see no clear, right answers; every alternative is tinged with negativity, evil taints the good.
‘Ethics as grey’ is a potent metaphor, and as with all things potent it needs to be used with great care. Some ethical choices are clearly right or wrong and to call ethics ‘grey’ in these cases is a way of hiding ...
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