Hence, the tolerance of self-defence and of defensive war. Socrates' greatest successors did not deny the spirit of his moral. But Aristotle and Spinozza thought that, for its world-wide implementation, it would have to be adapted. Moreover, many are pathologically suffering from obsessional or pulsional neurosis, hysteria, mania, paranoia. Rather than studying moral rules, Aristotle and Spinozza chose to study its science, called ethics.
Ethics considers morals as too strict and leading to boredom.
Moral indicates where not to go. Ethics indicates where one could go a little too far. Of course, religions, justice, and politics defined their own ethics. Nowadays, people tend to give precedence to ethics over moral. National, regional and professional committees are in charge of ethical matters.