What are the four characteristics of morality?

(1) universality. People are consciously or unconsciously restricted by moral norms in all social activities. Moral principles and norms stipulate how people deal with various relationships between people. It is like an invisible giant net, which stipulates people's behavior and tells people whether to do it or not.

(2) self-discipline. As far as the power to restrain people's behavior and adjust social relations is concerned, there are legal norms besides moral norms, but they have different ways of expression when they play their roles. Legal norms are formulated by state organs of political power and rely on coercive force to ensure their realization. The exertion of moral function mainly depends on the strength of people's internal moral beliefs. True moral behavior is voluntary.

(3) stability. With the development of economy and social progress, legal norms show great variability. In one period, it is a legal act, but in another period, it may lose its legal significance.

However, morality is a relatively stable social ideology. The moral concept of a nation and a country is the accumulation of cultural traditions of this nation and this country, which shows that the traditional moral concept has become a tacit custom between people. Long-standing traditional customs are always intertwined with national emotions and social psychology, which are relatively stable.