Ethics {absolute ethics} can depend on moral duties and religious laws. Relative ethics depends on situations.
People can have duties, responsibilities, or obligations {deontology}. Perhaps, certain actions are themselves right or wrong {deontological ethics} {deontologicalism}. Circumstances and results do not matter. People can know what people can do or not do in all situations, including action timing. In deontological ethics, actions are intrinsically right or wrong and people must or must not do them, no matter what the consequences.
God commands some behaviors and forbids some acts {divine command ethics} {command ethics}.
Ethics can have laws and absolute ethical standards {ethical formalism} {formalism, ethics}, rather than have judgments. Kant had formal ethics, from which he deduced everything.
Certain actions are always right or wrong, and people must always do them or not do them {moral absolutism}. Circumstances and results do not matter.
Morals are commands to do or not do something {prescriptivism}.
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