ABSTRACT
G. J. Warnock says that morality appears to resemble law in being an instrument for "social control", the main difference being that rules of morality are not "authoritatively made and published", like rules of law. Officially made rules of law explain part of the regulated behavior and societies also have unofficial rules—rules of morality and etiquette. Different kinds of rules are distinguished by the ways in which compliance is reinforced. Social conventions are ways in which human beings control the behavior of other human beings in their group so as to make it more agreeable to them. Theologians will agree that the rules of morality are made, but they will deny that these rules are made by men in the course of time. In the theological view, morality is itself a kind of law, namely, Divine Law. Many philosophers understand utilitarians to hold that a practice counts as moral or immoral according to whether it is useful or harmful.
