Is their a difference between morals and ethics?
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YES, Morals are your belief system. Ethics are our populas/public view of how things should be or are which ever the case.
599672
No, Morality is personal.  Rules are for everyone.\n\nRules can be set to try and set some kind of moral backing, but it is up to the person whether or not they want to follow the rules.
876115
sociologically yes....morally and ethically NO
1049381
It's the same thing.\nNo difference between a moral leader\nand a moral hypocrite!\nDo as I say - not as I do!
937841
In order to re-examine their morals, people would have to know why they believe what they do in the first place. Many individuals have adopted their morality from their environment (parents, culture, etc), and only give the "why" a casual thought. Critical thinking and reasoning are erroneously thought of as having no place in morality and religion. Culture and emotion rule.\n\nSecondly, I agree with other answerers that such a re-examination may require an adjustment to one's life(permanently?). It's better to live in blissful ignorance, either out of selfishness if sacrifice is required, out of vanity because they may be leaving the norm, or at minimum out of laziness (because change takes work).\n\nOne can only honestly stand for their morals if they have been examined in the first place.\n\nExcellent question!
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gravesendian said it perfectly as far as I'm concerned.  I agree 100%.  \n\nMorality is a purely human construct.  What is "moral" or lawful in one part of the world, can be immoral or illegal in another part.  Take prosititution...in some countries it is legal, in others not.  What makes the difference?  Difference in human perception...difference in what is considered an acceptable standard of behaviour.
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Morality as in?\nIf you tell me I can help.
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Morally not necessarily\n\nRealistically yes
95762
Ethical considerations are as relative as the ethics of each society. If you practive Machiavelian politics then ethics comes last, however, in practice if you do not treat international relations ethicaly then you will burn your bridges. Hence, ethical considerations can be good connectors in international relations.
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Whose ethics are we talking about here? Law is law, it is generally very black and white, and set by either law makers or statutory law. Ethics are a very personal set of rules, by which each individual run by, much like Morals. Really Morals and Ethics are closer related than Law to either of them. Ethics are to a person as Morals are to a group, in a sense. Laws are drawn on either of these, or neither, however since each group has a different opinion, and more so each individual opinion differs, Laws don't tend to follow every group's Morals and even more so any person's Ethics.
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One could probably write a book on this topic, but briefly....rights may be human rights (those which we have simply by virtue of being human) and legal rights (those granted by courts of law, either in accordance with codes of conduct or at the behest of governing nations).  Practices which determine what is ethical (or not) based on what one is entitled to (rights) would be rights-based ethics.
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I have worked in both the north and the south, and don't see a difference overall. Work ethics very from person to person, and are sometimes motivated by other factors, a person living in the north may focus all attention on getting something finished before winter, while a person in the south may be more concerned about summer or another event. Sometimes work ethics are established by the company that you work for. You may have deadlines, or you may work at a job that the perfection or quality of the work is more important, then the time it takes.
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If morals are a personal choice, why is it you are criticizing a "right winger's" moral decision to complain that you do not have morals?????? I mean, morals are a personal choice right?
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Politics and Morality are both relative terms.\nUnfortunately for us, they both happen to be totally unrelated to each other !
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No.  Morals developed out of religion.  Care and concern for human kind evolved from man's relationship with God.  While I realize it's a source of fanatical rampages, it's also a source of good in this world.  Without it, people would be a lot worse to one another.
349875
Depends on the individuals Morals and guidlines.  Diffrent for everyone.
1166632
Very critical...good for all of us?  I am hesitant to agree to your code, as it may be best for one of us to break it at some point.  Fairness and justice are intrinsic concepts to most people, and they are not the domain or invention of religion, but they are still not real.  An ethical code is imaginary and is the seed of a religion.  A responsible individual should consider murder, rape, and lying as viable actions in a given situation, and then choose action based on desired outcome.  That is responsibility.