Law and Ethics?

Question

Why is this considered to be one category?

Don't seem to me as they have a thing in common.

Answer 1

I heard that !

Answer 2

You know, computer programmers don't have ethical considerations. You go to work, and if you miscode something, it's just a mistake, it doesn't make you a bad person. If a lawyer transposes numbers on a check from his Escrow account, it's a potential ethical violation.

If a construction contractor misses a deadline, it's a contract violation and may cost him money, but it doesn't make him a bad person. If a lawyer misses a filing deadline, it's a potential ethical violation.

If a pharmacy can't read a doctor's handwriting, it doesn't make the doctor a bad person. If a lawyer's documents aren't clear, it can indicate incompetence to a degree that it is a potential ethical violation.

If a doctor asks a patient if they have any problems in their history that impact the treatment to be prescribed and the patient lies, it doesn't reflect on the doctor. If a lawyer asks a client what the true story is, gets lied to, and presents documents or testimony to a court based on those lies, it is a potential ethical violation.

Answer 3

well I guess they had to put them some where. many questions of law and ethics are related so why not. I am not trying to be sarcastic in any way, but most legal problems do involve the ethics of the person or people involved.

Answer 4

I agree but people making laws should have ethics, and people should have ethics and follow laws.

Answer 5

Both deal with rules -- how rules should be interpreted, how they are applied, and possible consequences.

Laws are rules imposed by the govt -- ethics are rules that are accepted voluntarily by association or profession.

But the general theory is the same.