AJKS (A Jezusowi kazali spać).
Polish rapper who is making music about hard stuff with little philosophical meaning. Destructive, nihilistic, anti-hedonist, rebellious, suicidal, depressive, misanthropic.
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Keeping a promise ‘til the end of time’.
“(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” by Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson. It has been performed by Luther Ingram, Millie Jackson, and Barbara Mandrell, among others.
“Snakes” by No Doubt is about being tempted to lose sight of your values and selling out.
For “Race, Ethnicity & Nation,” “Rednecks” by Randy Newman is as good as it gets (weird how that guy keeps coming up).
Language caution: The word “n*gger” is used as part of refrain.
I kept changing my own definition of what constitutes “ethics” and I ended up with a list where all the songs either describe or prescribe an, er, attitude, toward how to live life.
Payin’ the Cost to Be the Boss – BB King
Tell It Like It Is – by about a million artists
Third Rate Romance – Amazing Rhythm Aces
Love for Sale – Billie Holiday
Imagine – John Lennon
Blowin’ In the Wind – Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changing – Bob Dylan
Chicago / We Can Change The World – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Find The Cost Of Freedom – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Ohio – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Wasted on the Way – Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Heart of the Matter – Don Henley
Working It – Don Henley
The End of Innocence – Don Henley
All She Wants to Do Is Dance – Don Henley
Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
My Way – Frank Sinatra
This Masquerade – George Benson
Get It While You Can – Janis Joplin
I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash
Dust In The Wind – Kansas
Woodstock – Joni Mitchell
Inner City Blues – Marvin Gaye
For the Love of Money – The O’jays
This Land Is Your Land – Woodie Guthrie
Fight the Power – Public Enemy
I Am A Rock – Simon & Garfunkel
Mr Wendal – Arrested Development
Best literal title relevant to the OP:
The Right Thing to Do – Carly Simon
The first thing that popped into my mind was Fugazi’s “Suggestion”, which is about women dealing with harassment on the street. The last 40 seconds seem particularly relevant from an ethics perspective:
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She does nothing to deserve it.
He looks at her because he wants to observe it.
We sit back like they taught us,
Keep quiet like they taught us.
He just wants, he wants to prove it.
She does nothing to remove it.
We don’t want anyone to mind us,
We play the roles that they’ve assigned us.
She does nothing to conceal it.
He touches her 'cause he wants to feel it.
We blame her…
For being there.*