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Law refers to the specialized form of social control familiar in modern, secular, politically organized societies. The word morality refers to a community's socially approved behavior patterns, as sanctified by some widely held rational or religious ideal, whether observed in practice or not. Ethics, on the other hand, is the branch of philosophy that concerns morality. It refers to a grouping of principles that provide the moral foundations underlying legitimate knowledge, sound value judgments, and good conduct in the discourse of everyday life. Ethics, it has been said, is the point at which philosophers come closest to practical issues in law and morals. Law, morals and ethics are all means of controlling human conduct by setting normative standards and all have a constantly changing interaction with each other. Professional codes of ethics attempt to govern the conduct of members of a profession by promulgating certain rules on which the framers of...

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