text: is there a difference between morals and ethics?   there exists no generally accepted distinction.  but there are a few disnctions that people support.  most notably is that morality descibes interpersonal relationships, wheares ethics is a quasi-scientific study of sysytems of morality.  i think it was kant who made my favorite distiction, that morality is how i wish to be treated, whereas ethics are how i wish everyone to be treated.  a difference of scale, if you will.