My first reaction to this question was hostility. I wanted to make some kind of flip answer. I’m not quite sure why. Maybe it’s just obvious: our morals come from our lives and what we’ve learned while living them. They come from every experience we have. What is so hard to understand about that?
It makes no difference whether you believe in a religion or not. Life forms your thoughts about morality.
Maybe what makes me mad is the assumption of some kind of hidden agenda behind this question. Specifically, a religious person would say their morals come from religious teachings. Maybe you would use this information to somehow try to change us. I wish I knew the motivation behind this question.
Another thing this makes me think is that my moral standards are none of your business. Obviously, if I really believed that, I wouldn’t answer. Maybe it’s because the only way to really answer this question is to tell you the story of my life. In other words, you ask too much.
But, as you can see, I am living my life wun day att a time now. I am focusing on what is here for me, now. My present. It is, in part, the sum of all those past moments, but right now, it’s me, the yellow box where I get to write to fluther, and the thoughts in my head.
It is me. My morals are me. I am the standard I live by.