Freedom to choose is vested to every living individual, one may choose to live or

not, to do good or bad, to do right or the other way. Simply put, all individuals are
morally autonomous beings with the power and right to choose their values, but it does
not follow that all choices and all value systems have an equal claim to be called ethical.
For that reason, society demands ethics and morality to intervene in the classification of
values (good or evil, right or wrong) and in the formulation of rule of behaviors to limit
the freedom of every individual. Freedom is not absolute and subject to limitations!

Morality refers to the social norms and values that individuals and their
interaction with their fellow human beings and communities, and with their environment.
Ethics, on the other hand, is a systematic and critical analysis of morality, of the moral
factors that guide their conduct in the society.
Ethics and morality is necessary to contemporary man in most walks of life. Any
social activity in which it is possible to harm another person in some way has rules of
behavior which have the purpose of limiting pain and suffering within the community.
These rules and behaviors are grouped together under the term ethics. The application
of the ethics in the concrete life of contemporary man, however, needs morality as
guiding principles. These principles are intrinsic beliefs developed from the value
systems of how one 'should' behave in any given situation. Moreover, moral values are
the standards of good and evil, which govern an individuals behavior and choices.
When actual moral values, rules and duties are subjected to ethical analysis,
their relation to basic human interests shared by people, regardless of their cultural
setting, is particularly important. Moral values may change, and moral reasoning asks
whether the practices that are traditionally and factually legitimated by religion, law or
politics are indeed worthy of recognition. Indeed, the development of ethics in the past
century has been characterized by a tendency to revalue and overthrow the moral
conventions that have guided the interaction between the sexes, between human
beings and animals and between human beings and their environment. A more recent
task of ethics is to resist those tendencies of globalization, marketization and
technologization that erode both biodiversity and valuable aspects of cultural identity -
and may even have effects that threaten human rights. Although these tendencies are
often presented as value-neutral, they carry with them hidden assumptions that are
potential sources of inequity and abuse.
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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

The Golden Rule is a basic tenet in almost all religions: Christian, Hindu, Jewish,
Confucian, Buddhist, Muslim. In my own point of view, it could be considered as the
simplified version of morality and ethics serve to channel human behavior up to
nowadays. Law through the threat of sanctions, if it has been disobeyed limits human
behavior. But it cannot accommodate all wrongful act and bad or evil actions/values.
(For example; premarital sex and cursing others, no law prohibiting these
immoral/evil/wrongful acts). Through morality and ethics all acts were being channeled.
Morality involves incentives: bad acts may result in guilt, and good acts may result in
virtuous feelings and praise.

Morality emanated to reasons.
Man by nature is a political animal this Aristotelian principle emphasizes that man is a
rational animal and by nature, man possesses reasons which distinguish him from other
animals.
Good is to be pursued and done and evil is to be avoided. Through natural reason, we
are able to distinguish between right and wrong; through free will, we are able to choose
what is right. The basic inclination of man is1) to seek the good, including his highest
good 2) to preserve himself in existence 3) to preserve the species- unite sexually 4)
live in the community with other men and 6) to use his intellect and will-that is to know
the truth and to make his own decission.(St. Thomas Aquinas)
With understanding of this inclinations in our human nature, we can determine by
practical reason what is good for us and what is bad. Thus: good should be done; this
action is good; this action should therefore be done. Concretely, it is good for humans to
live peaceably with one another in the society, thus this dictates the prohibition of
actions such as killing and stealing that harm society.
Ethics and morality are in many cases dependent upon the particular people involved.
For example, what is ethical between a husband and wife, might not be ethical between
the wife and her doctor or between the husband and his son's school teacher.

There are innumerable degrees of ethical behavior. In some cases the behaviors are
deemed so important that the society has made them into laws, such as laws against
murder.
The more complicated a society, the more complicated are its laws and ethics.
For the End, other than morality and ethics, I want also to emphasize the importance of
values to the contemporary life.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. --
Albert Einstein
The moral values in life hold great importance from the point of personal, social and
spiritual development. Values, morals and ethics are inextricably tied together. Values
are what we learn from childhood; the 'stuff' we acquired from our parents and
immediate surroundings. Values are the motive power behind purposeful action. Moral
values are meant for making the quest to find the higher self an easier. Unfortunately,
many amongst us may find it difficult to follow values such as truthfulness, honesty,
forgiveness in our lives because we have not perceived the subtle gains that come to us
by following these values. Or, maybe, we are careless to realize the importance of
values in life.