But ethics is an ill defined social construct. It might also apply to a finite set of circumstances. Going back to concrete laws, there vast swaths of human ef

But ethics is an ill defined social construct. It might also apply to a finite set of circumstances. Going back to concrete laws, there vast swaths of human effort not covered by law. For example, there is no law either guaranteeing my right to or forbidding me from thinking certain thoughts. You can say that’s a gap in the legal system, but I think that’s outside our legal system. Similarly, you can (fairly trivially) construct other situations that are not covered (I don’t think there is a law about flipping pages when reading books). Goedel’s theorem says that you can never create an axiomatic system where every proposition can be rewritten as true or false, and therefore you can’t create laws that cover literally every situation in life, but vast majority of things do not need to be covered. For example, a system that has as its only law “you must give XXX money to the taxman on April 15 in such a way that a jury of 12 of your peers selected at random believes this has occurred” will not suffer from any coverage issues (at most you need to define some terms). This is because it is a finite rule that covers a finite set of situations.