ATS1264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marital Rape
9 Aug 2018
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Morality: the distinction between right and wrong. If something is moral , this means it is right or good . Ethics: the guidelines for how to behave in a moral way; how we should behave. Bioethics: a set of moral principles relating to biological science. Normative statements: statements about how things should be, in an ideal world. Claims about what is right and what is wrong. What is legal and what is illegal in a particular part of the world. It"s important to remember that what is legal is not necessarily moral. Some unethical practises were once legal in australia (e. g. slavery, murder of aboriginal people, marital rape); however, there are important laws against unethical practises (e. g. murder, initiating violence). The ideal role of the law is to enforce justice. Enforcing justice means giving people what they deserve. What people deserve is based on what is right and wrong .
