Ethics and the Federation

Ethics (or Moralities) are more relative in the Federation Government.

22nd Century
In 2150, when the United Earth Government was formed, many political leaders were at a loss on how to get people to peacefully coexist with people of different views on ethics. Not much was done to resolve the problem, except for the addition of a Section 2, too the United Earth's First Amendment, saying that "...all forms religions, ethics, and beliefs must be tolerated in order for there to be peaceful coexistence between all the world's people." The downfall of this doctrine was that it didn't help with peaceful coexistence; in order for this section to be upheld, the government couldn't Constitutionally do anything about charges against people, because according to Section 2, "all types of ethics" were acceptable.

23rd Century
The citizens of United Earth had to live with the "Peaceful Coexistence Doctrine" for over 65 years. Not much was publicly done about differing views on ethics, but much was done in secret using brainwashing techniques.

Many other ethics doctrines were put in place for technologies.

Transporter Act of 2246
The Transporter Act of 2226 was put into place after a lieutenant aboard the USS Yorkshire used the Yorkshire's transporter as a way of changing his appearance to other crew members' appearances and using it as a "Fountain of Youth".