Morals are determined by external factors

Fear. The younger we are, the more fearless we are. Children will climb trees, run into a busy street, play with snakes and spiders, etc. We are taught to fear things. Even the concept of death we learn to fear only because we see adults crying at a funeral and therefore associate it with something bad. We fear what we are taught to fear.Please watch the following clip.https://www.youtube.com......Of course children aren't blank slates that aren't afraid of anything until taught otherwise. They just have limited life experience to really know what pose a real danger and what doesn't, their sense of fear nevertheless isn't at all absent. In fact children often develop irrational fears as a precautionary way to deal with potential threats. For instance while some are fearless from poisonous snakes, others are afraid of animals or insects that aren't dangerous at all. They easily get frightened from thunderstorms just because they don't understand it. Some kids are even terrified of falling into and get sucked out through the toilet, even though it seems rediculous to us. A lot of children have a huge difficulty falling asleep in the dark because they fear that there might be monsters lurking beneath their bed. Infants get anxious as a response when left alone, even without the experience of trauma from neglection. The list goes on and on.My point though, is that all of these fears doesn't originate from adults convincing them that these are things to fear or from self-experience. They come from the vivid imagination of the mind, their lack of understanding and difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy.Sympathy and empathy are also things we learn. Children who grow up on a farm have no problem with beheading, plucking and cooking a chicken, whereas children who grow up in the city and have pets would be horrified at the idea.Sympathy and empathy aren't skills that we learn. They are formed from neurological networks in our brains. In fact, people who suffer from disruption in the right supramarginal gyrus can have a hard time distinguishing their own emotional state from others or they may lack the ability to perceive the emotion from others entirely. The disposition for empathy seems to be established from the age of 8-16 months. Long before they can even speak. This may even occur before the sense of self has been consolidated.I agree that some people are more emotional than others and surveys have shown that there is actually a link between when you are born and the characteristics which define your personality. This would affect how badly you are affected but does not alter your morals in any way. Are you proposing that the time of birth could determined the degree of emotional response to external stimuli? If so I'd be very interested to look at that study!What you learn is right, remains right and what you learn is wrong, remains wrong.Contradictorily, most people change their outlook on the world once they grow older and become more independent. I myself have done this several times throughout my life, politically and morally most thoroughly when I made the conscious decision to re-evaluate my values rationally instead of emotionally, following the attempt to scrutinize my inner biased opinions. So what do you think happens when we learn something that's already conflicting with our views and values? Is the sense of morality predetermined by what we already know? I would assume that you would agree that how we react and rationalize differs a great deal. Is it therefore possible for us to reach different conclusions on what is morally right or wrong, even if we share the same experiences?