Does the Law create Ethics ?

Question: Does the Law create Ethics !?

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They′re two totally separate things!. The law is backed up by the threat of force and actually undermines ethical behaviour for that reason!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No!. If either were true, there could be no such things are unjust or morally bad laws!. If we believe that, say, laws passed in Germany which required people to report Jews to authorities were bad or unjust, then we are asserting that there is an ethical standard independent of the law!.

If law is the source of ethics, it also makes law morally arbitrary!. A law which allows the persecution of minorities is no different, morally, from a law regulating traffic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no!. religion creates and teaches ethics, and ultimately law follows religion!. and law is not ethical, nor religion for the most part!. it is a way to control people!. so people cant smoke pot, or have a civil union with a partner which is of the same sex for legal reasons in the future, kind of ridiculous if you really think about it!. equal rights if only you fit the mold that government an religion seems fit!. it is ok to kill in the name of god or for your country as long as you live in that country or believe in the god that said religion believes in, its a messed up situation!. hypocritical if really think about it!.
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Ethics are the same as morals and morals are normally from a religious seed!. The questions is, who laid the religious seed!? It's hard to tell but as far as I can see, it was the first form of social control when we decided to settle in the agricultural revolution!. It was put there to have a greater good to organise its people so it would have been the first law!. So the answer is!. Law is Ethics and vice verser!. It is a bit of a chicken and egg question!.

But!.!.!. In non-secular states (like islamic states) they clearly admit that their laws are the same as their religious principals (ethics)!.

In secular states, religion must play no part in civic law!. But this does not seem to happen!.

I live in Britain and our government claims us to be a secular state!. This is not true as we still, up until only recently, descriminated heavily over homosexuals in our (Christian) legal system and still have not legalised euthanasia!. These are both religious views!. If we were secular, people would have a choice!. A nail in the coffin that Britain is still a religious state is the fact that we still swear on the bible in the law courts!.!.!. But yet we are told straight faced by politicians that we are a secular state!. It's quite comical really!.

Ethics are the laws and principles to which we live!. A society must have its people unite in the value of their ethics/law, otherwise that society will collapse; unless they they were anarchistically minded, where they are able to tolerate difference of opinion!.

This is why there are so many failed states in the world!. Because governments and religious organisations are not in touch with reality or the people it tries to govern, so its people rebel!.

Unfortunately, British people are far too apathtic and polite to ever think about a political uprising!. We will just have a little moan to our friends and then go and get blind drunk instead of trying to reform the governments who decide our moral/legal fate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No to both!.

The law and ethics themselves are both created by the same thing - the human instinct for good and bad, and judgements as to which actions are which!.

There absolutely can be such a thing as an unjust law! That would be a law that (perhaps through self-interest) violates ethics!. Enough of that, and you get a revolution lol!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes, but to some extent only!.
to the 2nd Q!. it is not "always" ethical!. law provides guidelines, trying to be impartial, yet it has some sacrifices to make(utilitarian principle)
remember, for every rule there is always an exception!.!.!. lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

yeah,

3: conforming to accepted standards of conduct <ethical behavior>

(define your terms please)Www@QuestionHome@Com