Legislating Morality: There Oughta Be a Law! In this film I learned the difference in ethics and morality. I was one of the people mentioned that would often use the words interchangeably. However, I learned that ethics has to deal with a group of people whereas morality deals with the individual. Ethics deals with the beliefs of a number of people and morality is to be determined by each individual in the group. This film left me feeling pleased about our current laws. Morality is dependent on the individual and because of that we can never have too strict of a law that imposes a particular sense of morality, and to me that is a wonderful thing. Our freedoms the country is founded on are dependent on the laws that we enforce. If our government