We have laws to protect people's rights. If the laws are enforced, what need have we of further rules?
2007-09-21 06:23:15 · 10 answers · asked by New Mommy 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Ethics are not laws - they are codes of conduct. They can be professional, personal, spiritual. They haven't anything to do with people's rights.
2007-09-21 06:37:40 · answer #1 · answered by pepper 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have to have laws to enforce when people break the law due to not having any ethics. Unfortunately just because a person knows they will get a ticket, for example, does not mean they will not speed anyway. If everyone had ethics, there would be no need for any laws to enforce.
2007-09-21 06:25:56 · answer #2 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethics are a code of conduct. Laws are a types of rules. Some rules are not laws and are not enforceable by a court of law.
2007-09-21 06:33:44 · answer #3 · answered by only p 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Laws do not cover everything -- and laws are only those things that the govt will enforce.
Ethics are local rules, that apply to a specific group and the members of that group. Ethics are voluntary -- you accept that you will follow them by joining a particular group (association, profession, whatever).
Because it would be unreasonable for the govt to pass laws regulating every individual activity of every organization -- and even more unreasonable for the govt to enforce all those rules -- each group creates its own rules. Those are ethics.
2007-09-21 06:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our laws set the parameters that we are expected to abide by.
Our ethics are what we hold that keeps us within the parameters of that law, and they also guide us through the grey areas that there are no laws, but certain ethical expectations that should be met.
Ex. The government shall enact no laws to impede our right to assemble.....meaning we have the right within the parameters of the law to protest. Ethically, is it right to show up and protest at a funeral? The law says we can, our ethics and morals say we shouldn't. (Even though there are morons that do.....lack of ethics)
2007-09-21 06:37:32 · answer #5 · answered by Susie D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethics are not laws. If you cannot see the difference, I will give a simple, example.
A laws are what lenders have followed (except for the few who went over the line) in providing loans for home ownership. The law has allowed people to qualify for loans that they should not have been in, thus the major mortgage problems we are seeing.
Ethics are what kept my best lender from putting people into programs which they should not have been in, thus of her originated loans FAR FEWER are at risk of foreclosure.
2007-09-21 06:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters, laws are based on our ethics. If you didn't have ethics, there would be no laws.
Second, the law can not (and in my opinion should not) cover every aspect of our interactions with each other. Ethics is a guideline for how we should treat each other in day to day life.
2007-09-21 06:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by Michael C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Super WalMart puts in right, smack, next door to a BigK Kmart. Illegal? No. Unethical? Yes. The sense of right and wrong, (or what a rational person would determine is right or wrong,) determines ethics, and the sense of legal or illegal defines legality.
2007-09-21 06:35:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethics are not rules, they are "motivation based on the ideas of right and wrong".
2007-09-21 06:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by Adviso 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need more/different rules in the future because times change and Republicans and other criminals keep finding ways to skirt the law.
2007-09-21 06:27:18 · answer #10 · answered by buffytou 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋