Is Not doing everything to be ethical inethical?

[HazelGrace1]

Suppose you are trying to live as ethically as possible, isn't every second that you are Not living as ethically as possible making you Immoral because you could use that time and energy to be more ethical ( helping others, the enivronment and animals for example)

This is just a thought as well but doesn't that make anybody who doesn't devote their life to ethics inethical to their extent? I suppose passive morality (minimal harm) and active morality (maximum ethical Action)

[Marcus_Aurelius]

Yeah, Effective Altruists, and in general some utilitarians okay with demandingness, think something like that. But most folks don't think that living ethically requires doing maximum good, or think pure altruism (i.e. focusing on others) isn't best.

[Duns Eith]

On 4/27/2021 at 1:43 PM, HazelGrace1 said:

Suppose you are trying to live as ethically as possible, isn't every second that you are Not living as ethically as possible making you Immoral because you could use that time and energy to be more ethical ( helping others, the enivronment and animals for example)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026228?seq=1

Maybe it is not worth it to be as ethical as possible

"I don't know whether there are any moral saints. But if there  are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them. By moral saint I mean a person whose every action is as morally good as possible, a person, that is, who is as morally worthy as can be. Though I shall in a moment acknowledge the variety of types of person that might be thought to satisfy this description, it seems to me that none of these types serve as unequivocally compelling personal ideals. In other words, I believe that moral perfection, in the sense of moral saintliness, does not constitute a model of personal well-being toward which it would be particularly rational or good or desirable for a human being to strive."

"Moral Saints," by Susan Wolf

Edited April 30, 2021 by Duns Eith