Ethics Versus Morality, What's the difference?

[Sammy Jankis]

Morality is internalized while ethics are externalized. That is, morality is a personal thing while ethics are how you act towards others.

It is perfectly possible that someone can be totally immoral and at the same time totally ethical. That is, they're a 'monster' on the inside, while following the rules of society in dealing with others on the outside.

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For example, you could have the landlord that will turn you out on the street in a second for any reason whatsoever. Immoral, but ethical.

that's not it.

morality is also about how you treat others.

one is bullshit.

 

[Into the Night]

no.

some profit is immoral.

Profit is not immoral.

 

[Into the Night]

slavery is profitable tho.

Slavery isn't profit.

 

[Into the Night]

moral relativism fallacy.

No such fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Morality is internalized while ethics are externalized. That is, morality is a personal thing while ethics are how you act towards others.

It is perfectly possible that someone can be totally immoral and at the same time totally ethical. That is, they're a 'monster' on the inside, while following the rules of society in dealing with others on the outside.

Moral Incompetence? Why Individuals Can Be Ethical, Too

This final post on the social nature of the individual highlights the dangers of regarding the individual as irredeemably selfish and immoral.

www.psychologytoday.com

For example, you could have the landlord that will turn you out on the street in a second for any reason whatsoever. Immoral, but ethical.

Yet again, immoral to YOU, perhaps, but perfectly moral in the eyes of that landlord.

Like beauty, morality is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Into the Night]

that's not it.

morality is also about how you treat others.

one is bullshit.

Yet a hermit feels moral being a hermit, and has no interaction with others at all.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Yet again, immoral to YOU, perhaps, but perfectly moral in the eyes of that landlord.

Like beauty, morality is in the eye of the beholder.

My point is the landlord could be a totally rotten SOB in terms of his own view of things but is perfectly ethical when dealing with tenants.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Yet a hermit feels moral being a hermit, and has no interaction with others at all.

he does no harm, that is a form of positive morality.

modern professionals and businesses don't understand that anymore.

no gotcha here.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

No such fallacy.

denial of fallacy fallacy.

post dismissed.

 

[Sammy Jankis]

My point is the landlord could be a totally rotten SOB in terms of his own view of things but is perfectly ethical when dealing with tenants.

that's just called legal.