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What is the difference between 'law' and 'justice'? How do morals and ethics intersect with the law, and is that a good or bad thing?

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Hello!

The most accurate answer is

You know how as a little kid you parent or whom ever tells you a set of rules you MUST follow you can not disobey their rules and if you do you get in big trouble. That is like a law. A law are rules or statements for countries.

Justice is like an act or in other words rightness.

Morals and Ethics intersect with the law because they focus on the rights and wrongs and this is a good thing because as I mentioned they point out the rights and wrongs with the law.

Glad to help :)
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You should be able to figure most of this out from a brief description, so that's what I'll give you: law is written regulations to keep order in society. It can determine the sentence that a criminal could get without considering "justice," which is more of an obscure and subjective concept (subject to different viewpoints). For instance, plea bargaining pertains to the law in which criminals admit their guilt in having committed a crime to ideally lessen their penal sentences. This contradicts justice, however, which would have the criminal locked up forever if say, having committed a serious crime like murder. Morals and ethics can be at odds with the law in these ways, and a lawyer may have to utilize laws that may not coincide with his or her personal views or sense of ethics (what is right and wrong). That is the basis behind what you could write. I think it is somewhat a good thing, as law and morals somewhat balance each other out. I do not believe that all laws have a moral foundation, however, so you can also write about how the law and morals/ethnics have a negative correlation as well if you so choose.
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