I think I’ve got the whole “ethics” vs “morals” thing figured out.
Leftist atheists prefer the term “ethics” because ethics are self defined. This is the “alternate truth” that was offered up in Genesis 3 (you will be as gods, knowing good and evil).
Morals are implicitly objective and external to human definition. Leftists don’t like that. It’s “confining” and “oppressive” and, frankly, insulting to their superior intellect.
Exactly! “Ethics” are morals for people that don’t have any.