Narissa Culiner I would have to agree with Stephanie for the most part concerning how religion has historically shaped and will continue to shape morals. I think morals have become a type of tradition. The Catholic Church only fifty years ago stressed that eating meat on any Friday was a sin. Now, upcoming Catholics probably have never even heard of this old tradition. Our society bases the structure of our morals.
Religion plays a big role, but contributing significantly is the media.
David Dirring I think that our morals are an innate quality. There are some basic universal archetypes such as being afraid of the dark, or being afraid of spiders and insects or snake, or the good vs. evil, light vs. dark archetype that everyone possesses. I believe that the very basic morals such as killing is wrong is like these universal archetypes. It's just something we know. I believe that history, and the environment which an individual experience's helps to specificy details in a person's set of morals, but everyone has the same basic set.