Morality

We hear a lot about morality, it's used to tap into our emotions in the news, to tap into our votes in manifestos and to tap into our sense of righteousness whenever we do anything out of the ordinary. Morality is a word we all know and we all use, but what does it mean? Are morals something all humans are born with, or do we learn them? Are they taught to us by our societies, or do we learn them from our own ideologies?

Morals are the bridge between a statement; there is a fire. And the consequence; I ought to save that burning child. Morals are how you decide that because the child is burning it would be good to put yourself in danger to save it. But do we even have morals?

If we do have morals are they mere values, or are they rules that can't be broken, ie. I won't go to the local mortuary and eat a dead body. The natural answer is yes, some things are so foul we have to make a moral law, draw a moral boundary. But what if you and your family are in a plane crash, the food runs out, and the only way to feed your family is by eating one of the perished passengers? Surely you wouldn't argue that was immoral? And if you take the, common, stance that it is infact moral to eat a already dead body to save a family, doesn't that mean you've broken the said moral law?
We could take a more extreme case, the aforementioned plane crashes. You have your family with you. Nobody dies in the crash. Would it be moral to take the life of one passenger to feed the rest? Can you balance one life with 300?

I would say morals are good ways to sleep at night, good ways to justify irrationality and good ways for society to work together. I wouldn't say there are moral laws that humans must abide by to be moral, only moral values that can be obeyed or disregarded.