Human beings are born with the awareness of right from wrong. When making choices, people use ethics, values ​​and morals to guide them in their daily lives. So what makes a person choose to commit an ethical mistake against another person? Or what drives a person to do what is ethically right? One way to help people make the right decisions is to have an ethics board in each state that provides laws with ethical guidelines to regulate behavior and consequences. Most government agencies have an ethics committee charged with reporting all alleged violations, but the committee does not have the authority to send someone to prison. Each state would have to pass a new bill, so if an ethical violation is committed, the penalty would have to be severe enough to prevent the person who committed the ethical wrong from committing another violation. Not many people agree with a new bill to enforce every violation. a person can commit. Richard Foglesong, a politics professor at Rollins College, disagrees with a new ethics bill that defines the law in detail. Foglesong states, “First [the government] shouldn't start by identifying every conceivable ethical violation and writing a law against it. Rather, they should take an educational approach, adopting an ethical, values-based rather than punitive mission statement, indicating what public officials should do instead of what they should avoid.” The mission statement would be a start, but we still need more. Once we have come to the plausible conclusion that an ethical value has been violated, then what? What good will a declaration of intent be if we don't have a law that penalizes violators? What about the actual law that a person has violated? We need to hold the wrongdoer accountable for hurting…half of paper…there would be fewer secondary crimes because people would think twice about the consequences. We citizens must unite and push the legislator to present a bill for the ethics committee. The bill would stop corruption in office, force people to behave fairly with each other, and there would be fewer violations. Works Cited Deslatte, Aaron. “Ethical reform sparks heated debate in the Senate.” Orlando Sentinel March 30, 2011:A3. News bank. Network. March 30, 2011. "Ethical Rules Need Strengthening: County Reforms Lack Enforcement of Touch." Editorial. OrlandoSentinel June 5, 2010: A16. News bank. Network. April 1, 2011.Foglesong, Richard. “Lessons to Share from Ethics Reform in Winter Park.” Orlando SentinelDecember 17, 2007: A23. News bank. Network. 1 April 2011. “The Sansone scandal leaves a stain on the legislature”. Editorial. St. Petersburg Times April 2, 2011:4A. News bank. Network. April 2. 2011.