Dr. Albert Schweitzer defines ethics as the name we give to our concern for good behavior. Ethics and morality refer to the rules or standards of conduct. Generally, moral issues are religiously based, but ethical standards need not be so. The lower the honesty and ethics in society, the higher the control by coercion will be required. Whenever we leave honesty out of ethics we have hypocrisy.
Ethics also requires action.
Ethical and honest people cannot do good by doing nothing. There is no ethics without action. Ethics leads to law and that leads to freedom. The former Chief of Detroit is in prison and two officers are in prison for the beating death of Malice Green. Former L.A. Detective Mark Furhman's tape recording during the Simpson trial was heard world-wide.