LIKE many people, I spent my teenage years wrestling with questions about right and wrong. Unlike like most, I never stopped. As I have been specializing in ethics, I’ve discovered that these questions aren’t just academic puzzles—they’re at the heart of our daily decisions, from workplace dilemmas to family disputes.
Recently, while mediating an argument between friends about a controversial social media post, I realized how often we confuse different types of moral judgment. This inspired me to create a simple map of the four distinct “rooms” we enter when making moral decisions. Let me show you around. Imagine entering a room with four doors. Each door bears one of these words:Many people open these doors randomly or confuse them with each other.
I believe, an ethicist is like an architect of moral thinking. Ethics doesn’t just ask, “What should we do?” but primarily, “How do we justify what we should do?”Behind this door, we find what people consider right and wrong. Morality is, so to speak, the operating system of our coexistence—a system of values, norms, and beliefs that guides our actions. Unlike ethics, morality is not theoretical but highly practical.
Law is more precise than morality. It defines exactly what is permitted and what is not. It knows no shades of gray, only black and white—even though jurisprudence does allow for discretionary powers. Law is the minimum that a society must agree upon to function. In other words: the law must function for rich and poor!!!!Religion adds another dimension to the previous ones: the connection to something supernatural, divine.
Understanding these differences allows us to think and speak more clearly about what is right and wrong. We recognize that behavior can be legal without being moral—or moral without being religiously justified. This differentiation makes us more mature citizens of a complex society.
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