In our world today, some many ideas and institutions carry with them a bad reputation. Many believe that these ideas and institutions have a problem with being morally right, i.e., accepted by society. Indeed, there are moral questions that must be answered, or at least looked at in dealing with some of these issues. Television programs are an overwhelming example. Because so many people watch television and due to its accessibility to virtually anyone, it could possibly be seen as one of the negative aspects towards morality in our society. One such institution that carries with it these questions is the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), a wrestling promotion that has virtually eliminated the notion of thought-provoking television and elevated unethical material available to society. Throughout this paper, I will show how the WWF is a controversial, adult-oriented, and in several cases, ethically unpure television programming.
             Before going into the many facets of the WWF's content, it must first be set what exactly ethics are and what certain guidelines should be followed in order for something to be considered ethical. Ethics is defined as "the philosophic science which establishes the right or moral order of human acts, that is, in the light of 1st principles, ethics determines the absolutely necessary norms of free acts whose realization in practice truly makes us men" (Higgins 9). What this essentially means is that ethics is a vital function that both establishes and explains proper norms of conduct for us as humans. Such ideas as we should not kill, steal, lie or cheat are basic guidelines that all humans can agree on as morally good. Ethics is a sort of moral code whose goal is not to make "good engineers, good dietitians, good speakers" but to make good men (3). The basic subject matter of ethics is the human act. As individuals, we use our human actions to guide us through our lives and!
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