Oftentimes, a tsunami wave in the ocean will be little more than a foot tall. The energy in the water lies underneath the current and is travelling over 100 miles-per-hour. Once that energy hits the shore of land, it pushes the water higher and higher into the air.
<u>A branch of philosophy dealing with values pertaining to human conduct</u>, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and the goodness or badness of the motives and ends of such actions.