Ethics and law are not orthogonal. Look at definition from Wikipedia: "Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior"."
Ethics forms basis on which law is built.
And, given that, it is not simpler to make ethical decision, it is harder. The decision should be worth being basis for a law, how's that simpler than following law?
Even if you take definition of ethical decision from Wikipedia: "An ethical decision is one that engenders trust, and thus indicates responsibility, fairness and caring to an individual." These words can bear negative connotations - if I beat people, I should be trusted that I will beat people, I should beat people fairly and I should care to beat an individual thoroughly.
Yes, I fully see you talk about principles. It can be seen that it is easier to make decisions from principles. But, you can misguide yourself about application of these principles.
Ethics forms basis on which law is built.
And, given that, it is not simpler to make ethical decision, it is harder. The decision should be worth being basis for a law, how's that simpler than following law?
Even if you take definition of ethical decision from Wikipedia: "An ethical decision is one that engenders trust, and thus indicates responsibility, fairness and caring to an individual." These words can bear negative connotations - if I beat people, I should be trusted that I will beat people, I should beat people fairly and I should care to beat an individual thoroughly.
Yes, I fully see you talk about principles. It can be seen that it is easier to make decisions from principles. But, you can misguide yourself about application of these principles.