I was thinking that when a community appears, people start to create habits and traditions, and by this point the ethic is arised with society. But if we add those three elements (ethics, traditions and habits) + time, the society starts to create laws.
Well, that's my opinion about that, and wha'st your opinion?
Dear Marcelo
Ethics is a set of standards, or a code, or value system, worked out from human reasonand experience, by which free human actions are determined as ultimately right orwrong, good or evil. If acting agrees with these standards, it is ethical, otherwiseunethical.
Law is a code of conduct which the authority in power prescribes for society. It basicallydiffers from ethics in its option to use force if and when necessary and by the fact that itis backed by power. Laws are, by and large, fair and moral. But it is not easy to acceptthat laws can be the foundations of ethics, or even that laws can ensure ethicalbehaviour.
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