Is Ethics the same as Morality?

Ethics: the actions an individual takes on himself in order to accomplish optimum survival for himself and others on all dynamics. Ethics are reason, consisting of rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group and mankind, and the other dynamics taken collectively. It is a personal thing: when one is ethical or “has his ethics in,” it is by his own determinism and is done by himself. The word comes from the Greek ethos, which means “character.”

Moral code: n. a code of good conduct laid down out of the experience of the race to serve as a uniform yardstick for the conduct of individuals and groups. Whenever people get together and operate as groups, they make agreements on codes of conduct regarding what is right and what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral—in other words, what will be contributive to survival and what will be destructive of survival. A moral code is that series of agreements to which a person has subscribed to guarantee the survival of a group. The origin of a moral code comes about when it is discovered through actual experience that some act is more nonsurvival than prosurvival. The prohibition of this act then enters into the customs of the people and may eventually become a law. A moral code is enforceable. The agreements constituting a moral code are those things which make a society possible. The word moral comes from the Latin mos, meaning “custom.”​