Ride the stream.

When did taboos become taboo? For that matter, when did society and culture first develop? It's easy to trace the lifespan ideas such as racism and mysogyny because history records the terminl points of such practices. But what about those basic laws that span all cultures? The laws that we have come to know as "thou shalt not [law]", when did those come into effect? Come to think of it, let's leave religion out of this, as it skews our perspective too much. Admittedly, my faith, or lack thereof, comes into play in most of my moral standards. And since we can't all seem to agree (or agree to disagree on matters of faith), then religion cannot be called to the witness stand. That isn't to say that we can't observe religion through a historic microscope, it only assumes that "God created the Earth and told Adam to be nice" is too biased a viewpoint to be considered eligible for the discussion.

It is socially unacceptable to be naked in public. It is similarly unacceptable to steal, kill, fornicate with the spouse of another, lie, tell brutal truths, hate, assault another, or to express violent tendencies. But because this viewpoint is nearly universal, it cannot be accredited to any one source. Citizens of China during the Xia Dynasty, dated 700 years before the Exodus and therefore, the Ten Commandments, kept social order by a system of laws.

Conversely, if you look at children, free of social corruption, they know no laws. Until they are taught otherwise, children will steal what they desire, they will lie and they won't pull any punches.

So morality isn't encoded into out DNA, seemingly. But the question is still there, at what point were these laws set forth?

As a side note, and in closing, I have found irony in its greatest form to date. It relates back to what our "fearless leader", "noble captain", or "reverend doctor" had to say about opinions, and how we are force-fed opinions and how nobody thinks for themselves nowadays.

Headache.