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High An ethical or moral rule is that which is often neglected because it is considered as a personal standard or level of quality. But this is the most urgent and current standard demanded by all institutions and organizations from its members. Essentially and historically, it is what compels every human person to do good and avoid doing wrong; as a principle, it is the highest standard.

Policy Second is policy, a flexible rule officially determined by any government or private organization to respond to critical situations. This is a special rule to fully implement or support every law and principle in the current situations. As it is in itself, a policy is not a law. It carries with it however the possibility of becoming a law.

Moral Fourth is ethical or moral principle, a moral code of conduct based on ethical theories that chooses good or right decisions and actions from bad or wrong decisions and actions.

Principle Third is principle, a basic rule from which laws, policies and other rules are developed. It restricts unaccepted rules or actions, and should be followed while policy merely guides and not strictly implemented. So, a principle is greater than the law because the law is just the application of a principle.

Statement Normative Statements—an expressed value judgment that claims that something ought to be the case (Mabaquiao and Evangelista 2020, 5).

Norm Norms—a principle of right action binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 2014).

Judgment Value Judgements—the process of forming an opinion, an estimate, or evaluation of the relative worth or importance of something through discernment based on standards.

Mess Without rules, the world can be a mess, unfair unjust and in great disorder. Rules are people’s only option to avoid the many chaos, suffering and untoward incidents of life brought about by unorganized actions. Rules essentially bring the greatest happiness as end or reward for the majority but sorrow especially to the few individuals who violate or do not follow rules.

Extraction Only human beings can extract (decipher) the unwritten or unspoken rules imbedded in the natural world. They are able to verbalize them, write them down, impose upon themselves, and communicate to or for everyone to follow. Rules are meant and enacted to be followed. They have discovered realized that rules are the most effective tools in order to unify their actions, settle their conflicts, improve their situations, avoid disasters and harmoniously live with other living and non-living things.

Discernment Moral discernment—the process by which an act is decided to be either good or bad, with preferential option for what is discerned to be good/right over what is discerned as bad/wrong.

Rule Rules are obvious parts of life and world order.  They can be in the forms of laws, norms, policies. regulations, guidelines, custom, requirements, formal rules, principles, promulgated rules, requirements, unwritten rules, codes of conduct, etiquette, ethics or morals. They may be unacceptable to some because they constrict or tighten people’s lives. They also seem to restrict or limit peoples’ `opportunities and capabilities.’ But rules are actually what make people human.

Animals They distinguish humans from animals. They are the most practical product and closest reflection of human reason. This is because rules are necessary tools in everyday human life and could either rationally limit or enable things to happen.

Four There are four most important types of rules in relation to being a good citizen or happy member of an institution that need to be discussed here.  First is law. In the Philippines for example a law is a systematized rule created to govern the actions of all Filipinos and foreigners living in the country. This is a formal and promulgated rule that excuses no one from not following because it entails the welfare and security of the whole nation.

List List down rules in your workplace, at home, in your community, or organizations. Evaluate the rules by responding to the following questions: a. Which of the rules do you find constricting? Why? b. Why are rules important to social beings? REPORT IN CLASS DURING THE SCHEDULED ZOOM MEETING.

Moral Moral Situation—moments in daily life that require persons to distinguish and deliberate on what is good from bad, right from wrong.

SRelativism Social Relativism—the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on society’s norms (Mabaquiao and Evangelista 2020, 12).