Ethics is a field with a long, rich history of study and many-threaded tapestries of thought. It's certainly not "whatever you want it to be", although there ar

Ethics is a field with a long, rich history of study and many-threaded tapestries of thought. It's certainly not "whatever you want it to be", although there are schools that do what you suggest - picking the end point they wish to arrive at and and trying to reverse engineer the ethics that would lead to it.