Part 5: Ethics.com
A panel on ethics moderated by Robert Nylen, the founder and co-chairman of BeliefNet, featured Leonard Sweet, founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries, and Rush Kidder, founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics.

Sweet divided the digital community into "immigrants," those born before 1962, and "natives," those born after. We are seeing "Ellis Island experiences every day," he said.

It's a human responsibility to create and enlarge, but that it's important we accept "responsibility for [the] human knowledge of good and evil," he said. We need pre-mortems that allows us to think a step ahead of the things we create.

Sweet argued that new technology doesn't have to subvert humanity and, he advised, "as we seize the future, always do a mea culpa."

Kidder discussed the universality of honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassion. These virtues, he said, come up as the most important in all surveys the Institute of Global Ethics has done across all ethnicities, countries, ages, and classes.

He noted that "people die for ideas," and that part of what makes us human is that "no other living species does that." He urged the audience to continue to evaluate right versus wrong and, even more difficult, right versus right, where fundamental values come into conflict but neither is "wrong."

Kidder stated that "the law rushes in to fill the void as the ethics drain out of a society," and expressed his desire for personal ethics to overcome desire for legislation and regulation.