As said above by soul mate, ethics is something of a process, it adapts because it has to. Just as us why-questioners adapt ourselves and the world never stops changing as well. I guess i fail at making a tenable distinction between ethics and everything else. To me ethics is a very large part of who we are as individuals. But that also means it, at least insofar as it takes the form of the individual, has limits. Something of a view on morality as a 'cosmic' form of causality perhaps, or at least, not expressly distinct from it. very Hindu it seems. I think that's the problem on which Wittgenstein's Big Book thought experiment hinges: it presupposes the distinction. the objective view of reality is always a representational one. at least from our perspective. and we can't get another one, because we are.. well.. human? whatever that means, we decide both individually and collectively, i guess.