How come we have moral standards?
One apparent reason is that we learned to do so through socialization, which means that our actions were molded from infancy on wards by our families, preschools, and nearly everything we came into touch with in our settings. Morality is an innate feeling of rightness regarding our own and other people’s actions.
One argument is that moral norms are conveyed through sacred books and religious leaders, and that even non-religious people’s values have been absorbed from the religious past surrounding them.
Morals emerge from a person’s ideals. Values provide the basis of a person’s capacity to distinguish between good and wrong. Morality expands on this to provide precise, context-driven laws that control a person’s behavior. They are shaped by a person’s life experience and are subjective.
Humans have a moral sense because their biological makeup dictates the presence of three essential conditions for ethical behavior: I the ability to anticipate the consequences of one’s own actions; (ii) the ability to make value judgments; and (iii) the ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
