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No. Plenty of laws can be considered unethical. A glaring example: slavery was legal for many years, but certainly never ethical. A great number of people would say that many current laws are unethical as well.
Further, plenty of ethical behavior is illegal. Many have made arguments that certain crimes (possession of marijuana, or underage possession of alcohol, for example) are not unethical. Also, many civil wrongs may not be unethical. Having a car accident and damaging another person's car may be a pure accident, and pose no ethical consideration, but the driver can be held legally responsible for the damages.
Lawmakers generally try to consider ethics when deciding which laws to adopt, but it isn't necessarily true that the two must co-exist.
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∙ 9y agoEthics are a difficult subject that causes social divisions at times. For instance, the practice of abortion is legal, but many people believe that it is not ethical.
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