In the area of ethics, there are five moral categories into which traditionally an action can be categorized.
1. Immoral: not permitted by morality; morally bad; in performing the action, you are doing something morally wrong.
2. Morally permissible: permitted by morality; in performing the action, you are not doing anything immoral. There are three subcategories of morally permissible action: obligatory, morally neutral, and supererogatory.
• Obligatory: required by morality; if you do it, then you have done something immoral.
• Morally Neutral: neither morally good nor morally bad; no moral value whatsoever.
• Supererogatory: going above and beyond what morality requires; you are not obligated to do it, so in failing to do it, you would not be immoral, but you have done something morally good if you do it.
