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Please discuss the relationship between ethics, morality and law.

Morality is the sum total of behavioral principles and norms that are maintained and acted by social public opinion, local traditional customs and inner beliefs. But from the perspective of historical materialism, morality is rooted in certain material living conditions. We can simply summarize morality as follows: morality is the sum total of the thoughts, principles and norms of natural people living under certain material living conditions, such as good and evil, honor and shame, justice and injustice, justice and prejudice, barbarism and humility, or it is a comprehensive system of contradictions and unity. Laws are formulated by the state, applied by the courts and enforced by the state. Morality and law are two main forms of social norms, which are both different and related. Judging from their connection: first, they all belong to the superstructure and serve a certain economic base; Secondly, they are the most important means of social adjustment. Since mankind entered a civilized society, any society has to resort to these two means at the same time when establishing and maintaining order. Third, morality is the condition for the formation of law: among the basic values of human common life, legal norms and moral norms have the same foundation. In other words, the premise of the legal order is that it must meet the minimum moral norms that are considered binding. Any law is based on the order of moral values. Fourth, law is an effective means to spread morality. The implementation of the law itself is a process of punishing evil and promoting good, which not only contributes to the formation of people's legal consciousness, but also contributes to the cultivation of people's morality. Therefore, the implementation of the law has played an important role in the formation and popularization of social morality. Fifth, morality is the evaluation standard and driving force of law and a useful supplement to law. Sixth, morality is the goal of law. The above tells us that morality and law are essentially a code of conduct, and both are human codes of conduct. At the same time, they have internal relations in nature, production conditions, functions, action mechanisms and objectives. This relationship between morality and law determines the inevitable connection between ideological and moral education and legal education, which is embodied in the fact that the goals of ideological and moral education and legal education are to cultivate correct behavior principles and norms of college students. Therefore, moral education and legal education are essentially the education of behavior principles and norms.