Ethics

Ethics need not always assent to nature or morality as implied by its dictionary definition. Let us take an example, Teacher dating a student is considered unethical. It is frowned upon. It is unethical in the profession, the teaching profession. But, it is permissible in nature for them to fall in love genuinely. It is not immoral. Here morality & ethics contradict. Ethics is a disciplinary structure to govern an individual behavior in a group. Take another example, say a company restricts an employee to not accept a gift of more than Rs 500 from an external vendor. Assume you are the external vendor and you find two gifts one costing Rs 501 and you like it and another costing Rs 350 and not like it that much. What would you choose, former or the latter? Buying the Rs 501 gift is unethical as per the company but we "might" not call it immoral as per our conscience. To put a mathematical perspective, ethics is a discrete function , kind of quantifiable and also binary, whereas morality is a continuous function. If we take the range of Rs 500 to Rs 5000, where we fix the demarcation between moral and immoral figure varies from one individual to another.

But, a group (or company) can't survive without ethics, the mandatory standard. It makes the members conscious of their boundaries of what is right and what is wrong. They have to comply with it as long as one wish to stay with the group. It helps the group to remain in harmony and achieve the group objective. 

Ethical conflicts is one thing which any government would like to stay away especially if it touches upon human emotions or religion beliefs. If there is one thing which I would like to do last thing in this world would be making an amendment to constitution with regard to polygamy. Period.

The bottom line is the teacher has to relinquish in order to date his or her student.