What are the various sources through which humans can judge the correctness of their actions? In the context of public life discuss how these sources are important in offering a clear and practical guidance.

Various sources by which humans can judge correctness of action are -

1. Legal means: is the action legally valid or not?

2. Ethical / Moral ground: is it morally good action. ex: Surrogacy or Prostitution to be done - depends on legal, ethical, moral framework.

3. Societal norms: sticking to the norms and values of society

4. Traditional values: valuing the traditional, then it is a way to measure.

5. Measuring the rightness by measuring the consequence (and (Utilitarian perspective) i.e. of max benefit to maximum.

6. Code of Conduct 7. Code of Ethics.

These ethical norms, Code of Conduct, Ethics acts as legal as well as moral restraint guiding the individual. Eg: the Conduct Rules guides to a civil servant when there is lack of clarity over the rules and comes as rescue to decide the best step.