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Ethics may or may not be enforced, whereas laws are supposed to be. Ethics if they are codified are usually done so unofficially, while laws are codified by a government. A violation of ethics may also be a violation of laws, but not necessarily. Ethics may be personal as well as collective, and laws are intended to apply to people collectively. Ethics may vary among people and institutions, and laws are supposed to apply equally. All ethics are ethical, not all laws are ethical.
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Laws and ethics are not fixed principles. These principles will keep changing from time to time so as to suit a particular situation in the best way possible.
The laws of God do not always match the principles of ethics that have been developed by people.
Legalistic ethics is a moral theory that emphasizes following laws and rules as the foundation for determining what is right or wrong. It focuses on the importance of abiding by established guidelines and regulations within a society to make ethical decisions. This approach emphasizes the external source of morality found in these laws rather than individual intentions or consequences.
Ethics are just a set of expected codes of behavior in the society. Someone may take them up or choose not to. Laws must however be adhered to and a hefty punishment may follow if some laws are broken.
both of them should be consistent with each other. Ethics are the laws which God gives to us and the morality is how we live these laws inour lives. There must not be a division between these.
When public officials are sworn in as public officers they agree to follow laws and have a code of ethics they must follow. This code of ethics are the laws that public officials follow.
Ethics and religion both encompass how a person thinks about an act or thought. In short, how a person thinks about right and wrong. Is killing another person just because you don't like him right or wrong, for example? Ethics and religion are both filters through which one answers questions, such as that one. While both ethics and religion are "filters" of right and wrong, religion requires that the filter derives from a supernatural source. For instance, answering the above question, christianity, a religious group, would support that killing because of dislike is wrong. Ethics, on the other hand, need not have a supernatural source to determine right from wrong. I, for instance, can say that I would not kill another because I dislike him because I see no need to kill another who does not want to harm me. That rule is part of my ethics. Its a derivative of my free-thinking mind, alone, and is not from any source of supernatural fear, desire, or literature.
The law is based on the state to compensate for loss and punish those that have done misdeeds. Ethics is the moral conduct that cultures agree upon. The convergence of law and ethics is when ethics and law coincide.