... law should be, but the law is present to maintain social order when conflict exists between individuals. Legal norms are compared to standards, these have been described as 'higher laws' that have been evolved from divine revelation e.g. religious texts or human nature. It is a widely accepted viewpoint that morals exist in individuals innately, in other words morals are perceived to exist naturally in all human beings. Morals have been defined as a set of rules to be followed by individuals. Morality is concerned with beliefs, this may mean that religion plays an important role of influence. However if religion influences morals this means a set of variant morals would exist in different cultures. Morals also vary from one individual to another because it is so difficult to generalise something like morals to such a diverse world. Law and morality together specify how people should behave, this relationship is ...

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