Ethics (or often "morality") is a core branch of philosophy that attempts to define right and wrong, what you ought to do as distinct from what you may in fact do. In contemporary philosophy, ethics is usually divided into three subfields: Meta-ethics, Normative ethics, and Applied Ethics. Meta-ethics includes questions such as: are ethical claims capable of being true or false, or are they expressions of emotion? If true, is that truth only relative to some individual, society, or culture? Normative ethics attempts to arrive at practical moral standards that tell us right from wrong, and how to live moral lives. This may involve articulating the good habits that we should acquire, whether there are duties that we should follow, or whether our actions should be guided by their consequences for ourselves and/or others. Closely related to this is the study of value, which asks what is value, what things are valuable, and why? Are things valuable intrinsically (in-themselves), or instrumentally (because they serve some purpose or goal)? Applied ethics is the application of theories of right and wrong and theories of value to specific issues such as abortion, euthanasia, human rights, animal rights, and lying and honesty. Two areas of philosophy that are closely related to ethics are include Political Philosophy and Legal Philosophy.