How do you define law, ethics and morality?
Law: is a set of rules which defines ‘acceptable codes’ of conduct, at that particular time, in that particular place. Where breaking of those rules results in punishments ‘enforced by a ruling authority’. *Acceptable codes* of conduct and *enforced by a ruling authority* are the key words here they change according to culture, social norm, time and with whom is the ruling authority (Thanks Sweetie). Whilst the principles of equity, truth and justice SHOULD be paramount in any legal decision, it is clearly evident by looking at cases throughout history that often it is not. Laws have many functions such as disincentives, controlling the masses, creating a harmonised ‘civilised’ society, serving the interests of politicians or dictators etc. so don’t look at laws to decide what is ethical. Ethics is a set of moral rules and analysis of human behaviours. It is a set of rules that attempts to encourage moral behaviour and the analysis and measuring of human ACTS for their rightness or wro
