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Ethics are a system of moral principles and ... properties exist independently of human beings, and that ethical statements give knowledge about the objective world. To put it another way; the ...

The Goldwater Rule is a statement of ethics first issued by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 restraining psychiatrists from speculating about the mental state of public figures.