I have pored over the 'pedia looking for a clear writeup of the distinction between ethics and morals when the two are not used synonymously. The closest I've gotten is ethics as the study of morals, but I'm not sure even that's dead-on. The examples of ethical schools of thought seem more concrete to me than the examples of moral thought, but that might just be because I've seen them before.
So you would have been willing to accept a paper arguing that abortion was or wasn't unethical? Or something more concrete about whether or not abortion/trickle-down economics/cheese whiz sculpting did or did not harm society in some way?
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I've heard of this on an NCIS episode in which Ducky was getting his master's... (didn't get it)
Date: 2008-10-06 09:02 pm (UTC)So you would have been willing to accept a paper arguing that abortion was or wasn't unethical? Or something more concrete about whether or not abortion/trickle-down economics/cheese whiz sculpting did or did not harm society in some way?