Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles."Ethics." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 13 Jan. 2020.
The concept of social justice is founded on the belief that all people merit equal rights and dignified treatment. In a socially just community, all people would reap communal benefits and shoulder communal burdens by sharing responsibility as social actors. Social justice is a broad concept in that it seeks to end discrimination against all marginalized communities, which are discussed individually using identity categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age, among others. "Social Justice." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2020.
