People confuse Morality with Ethics.
Ethics, as a concept developed first by Aristotle in his book Ethics, is a philosophical study of morality.
Ethics asks the question, "What is good?" It is an intellectual study of the concept of goodness and rightness.
Morality is the term for what is good or bad, right or wrong, in the sense and context of social behaviour.
Morality is subjective. What one person thinks good or right behaviour can be challenged by someone who thinks the same behaviour is bad or wrong.
Morality is an ancient term for how to behave Rightly in society. It is a pedestrian term, concerned with manners and socially appropriate behaviour.
Ethics is a systematic study of morality. Ethics does not claim X is good or bad. Ethics studies the concepts. What do people mean when they use these terms?
Ethics uses logic and evidence to study morality.
Morals are social behaviours subjectively held by individuals to decribe social actions as good, bad, right or wrong.
Thus, the difference.
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