[00:00.16]He looked around the lake,
[00:01.79]no other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight.
[00:06.58]He looked again at his father.
[00:08.21]Even though no one had seen them,
[00:10.04]nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish,
[00:13.20]the boy could tell by the clarity of his father's voice that the decision was not negotiable.
[00:19.91]He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water.
[00:26.34]That was 34 years ago.
[00:27.70]Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City.
[00:31.88]He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago.
[00:38.73]But he does see that same fish - again and again -
[00:43.24]every time he comes up against a question of ethics.
[00:47.37]For, as his father taught him,
[00:49.12]ethics are simple matters of right and wrong.
[00:53.10]It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.