Answer: Ethics is based on well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. ... "Being ethical is doing what the law requires." "Ethics consists of the standards of behavior our society accepts."
By golden mean Aristote mean choosing the balance between excess and deficit of behavior. In todays time an example of a virtue is courage which is between rash behaviors and cowardice.
In the beginning the narrator felt alone and pushed away from his neighbors. They kept laughing at him for how he spoke. Then they start laughing together and become friends.
