What philosophy do you subscribe to? Where do your morals and values come from?

@LeopoldBloom Do you think morality is therefore somewhat objective or a social construct at the same time like sociologists claim?

@RebelliousSpirit Neither. Morality evolved as a limit on individual behavior for the good of the community. It feels objective in that everyone is of the opinion that their own view of morality is based on some universal principle, but it's not like we can point to something that everyone agrees on. But it's not entirely subjective either because the moral limits we feel are part of our nature. Most of the time, we don't feel forced to cooperate with each other out of fear of punishment; we want to cooperate.

Edward O. Wilson explains this in some detail in [i]Sociobiology[/i], which established that moral behavior evolved the same way physical characteristics did. Since cooperative groups of humans survive better than uncooperative groups, cooperative behavior was selected for and codified as secular laws and religious morality.