Friday, January 19, 2007

MORALS AND ETHICS :P

I always thought that morals ,values and ethics are pretty much the same thing...
But now , after my very long research,i found out that they are actually quite different...
First up,'Morals'.....
Morals are motivation based on ideas of right and wrong... ...
Morals have a greater social element to values and tend to have a very broad acceptance. Morals are far more about good and bad than other values. We thus judge others more strongly on morals than values. A person can be described as immoral, yet there is no word for them not following values.
Coming next..., 'Ethics'...
You can have professional ethics, but you seldom hear about professional morals. Ethics tend to be codified into a formal system or set of rules which are explicitly adopted by a group of people. Thus you have medical ethics. Ethics are thus internally defined and adopted, whilst morals tend to be externally imposed on other people.
If you accuse someone of being unethical, it is equivalent of calling them unprofessional and may well be taken as a significant insult and perceived more personally than if you called them immoral (which of course they may also not like).
Well,i admit that it is quite difficult to concentrate on reading this huge chunk of words but it should help you understand better(on morals and enthics)..
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