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Ethics VS Law                                            INTRODUCTION





                            Ethics are broadly understood as the set of rules, written and
                      unwritten, that govern our expectations of our own and others’                                         Providing
                                                                                                                             the right
                      behaviors. It also could be described as the principle that guide a                                       to
                      person or society, created to determine what is good or bad, right or                                  withdraw
                      wrong, in a given situation.

                            Frequently the term ethics is juxtaposed with the term laws.                 Avoiding                               Minimizing
                      However, ethics and laws are different since ethics tend to be broader             deceptive                              the risk of
                      and more informal than laws. An action may be legal yet unethical or               practices           Principles            harm
                                                                                                                                of
                      illegal but ethical. In simple words, the law could be acknowledged as                                 research
                      the systematic set of universally approved rules and regulation created by                              ethics
                      an appropriate authority such as government which may be regional,
                      national, international, etc. It is used to administer the action and
                      behavior of the members and can be sanctioned, by imposing penalties.                                              Obtaining
                                                                                                                  Protecting
                            It is important to clearly understand what is ethics. Effectively,                  anonymity and            informed
                                                                                                                confidentiality
                      they set out how we expect others to behave, and why. While there is                                                consent
                      broad agreement on some ethical values for example, a murder is
                      considered bad, there is also wide variation on how exactly these values
                      should be interpreted in practice.
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