The ethical dilemma codification: equity?

For the past seven years, the governing council of the American Society for Public Administration and its subcommittee on Professional Standards and Ethics have tried to write a code of ethics. This paper suggests that when one explores the overlapping domains: professional ethics, which includes dilemmas of choice--social justice and administrative discretion with the merit system, larger questions should be raised. That is, is becoming a profession ethical? Will existing inequities be magnified? Can questions of political philosophy be ignored?