The basis of ethics is one that can be detrimental to almost any action, decision, thought, feeling, or motive. It shapes our mind state, emotional drive, spiritual intuition, and the physical measures we as people take in everyday life. Rather it be good or bad ethics, is entirely up to each and every individual. Do we stop to pay attention to the cat stuck in the tree? Or maybe assist the younger kid out in the courtyard getting pummeled by upperclassmen? These things play into the very fabric of life and its constant ripples. Which brings us to the topic of discussion: What of the use of potions and their effects when tethered to the ways of morality? Different people from different walks of life have their opinions about it, leading to society establishing the code of conduct we know today concerning the various potions out here in this world of ours.

  My take on ethics in usage of potions is quite unorthodox, as I think one should always follow the proper protocol and set standard for using the potions, while at the same time finding the subtle ways to push the practices past basic and accustomed use without ever having to break that set standard. For example, if one set procedure of potion usage was to only use an antidote if one was conscious, and we had a fellow person who had fell unconscious due to some grisly poison, it's probable that most wouldn't even hesitate to use the antidote in order to save a person's life from the permanent or potentially fatal poison, however without considering the side effects of using the antidote while the person was unconscious could harbor additional or even more severe harm. All because of ethics. So how do we push? How do we bend our ethics to meet the bending of protocol? What if instead of providing the antidote while the person was unconscious we perform a spell to grant awareness to the person, or even induce a hypnotic, self-aware state in order to administer the antidote? One's ethics hasn't changed, neither did the rules of engagement. More importantly, neither did the end result of a person being fully cured and healed. It's the little things, from ethics to potions to usage, the smallest ripples make the biggest waves; that definitely applies for bad ethics as well. I firmly believe my view on ethics in the usage of potions provides a way for individuals to always advance in who they are, pushing them past the standard of their morality, mentality, and intuition. And if that's not detrimental to society, our civilization is in the wrong state of being all together.

  Ethics directly influences and determines what we as individuals do. Thus, in appliance to our as a society's use of potions and various compounds and mixtures, it all boils down to one's view of how ethics plays a part in everyday life, not just concerning what's right or wrong, or even what's apart of a standard or not. It takes all factors infused together to truly establish the viewpoint of how to go about things such as using potions, which exactly reflects my view. After all, what's more important? Right or wrong, or one's view on right or wrong?