PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Involuntary Commitment, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Law Society
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Law are things that you are obliged and required to follow; regulates behaviour you have no say in it. Society you belong to requires that you follow these rules, no say. Laws are rules and regulations you are required to follow. Laws are for the most part not flexible/changeable, rigid. Laws are requirements required to behave this way. Punished for breaking a law society says you will be removed or punished in some type of monetary way. Letter of the law: what"s written, exactly what it says. Spirit of the law: what it is supposed to mean. Laws also malleable, but less than ethics (requires legislative change government has to change it: homosexuality. Ethics are expectations, guidelines, what you should do. Laws are what you have to do and ethics are what you should do. A lot of ethical guidelines have been codified into law. Laws are what you cannot do, ethics are what you should not do.
