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Laws and Morals Laws are the body of rules which are recognised as binding among the people of a community or state, so that they will be imposed upon and enforced among those persons by appropriate sanctions. Morals on the other hand are beliefs and values which are shared by a society, or a section of society; they tell those who share them what is right and what is wrong. According to Hart, moral rules can be distinguished from legal rules and other social rules in several ways. Disagreement to the content of legal rules can be resolved by reference to statues or by the opinions of the judges, and even if those who disagree with a particular rule generally accept this as a perfect way of determining what the rule is. There may also be considerable disagreement to the content of moral rules, and there is generally no accepted way of...

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