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What does it mean?
Law operates within a broader context of moral values and societal ethics.
In plain terms
Law is part of a larger ethical society.
What can you take from it?
Laws depend on ethical foundations to function.

Where it applies

  • governance
  • community standards
  • legal systems

Putting it to work

  • promote civic ethics
  • teach moral reasoning

Questions to consider

  • How do ethics shape your view of law?

Another view

Laws sometimes lag behind evolving ethics.

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