Morality and its source

[JMS]

"My mom got drunk on stout,
My dad couldn't stand on two feet,
As he lectured about morality."
Partial lyrics from the song "Sea and Sand" by "The Who"

The above is just a little priming for the thread...

So here I sit, beer in hand, ready to speak of morality, or rather where we derive our morality.


Here is an online dictionary definition of morality:
mo·ral·i·ty (m-rl-t, mô-)
n. pl. mo·ral·i·ties
1. The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.
2. A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct: religious morality; Christian morality.
3. Virtuous conduct.
4. A rule or lesson in moral conduct.




It is the first and third definition that I am mostly concerned with.



I have read that some members here see it as an idea coming from society, Others from their particular brand of religion, some believe there are no such thing as morals. I believe it comes from neither of these.
Assume for a moment that it does come from society as a whole. Society can change its idea of morality at any time. We may wake up one morning after a long sleep finding that our society now deems eating human flesh a prerequisite for high moral standards and sex with ones own relatives the pinnacle of moral standards.
What of religion? There are many to choose from. All have slightly different to radically different ideas as to what morality is. Religion is also a man made construct which means it may also change over time. The idea and belief in a God lends a certain stability to religious morality. This is a good thing, but mans hands are still involved...it will decay in time leaving us again to be so much flotsam and jetsam in the changing tides of man made morality.
If, as some believe, that there is no such thing as morality then that leaves us to do as we please...or for anyone else to do to us as they please. To me, this is not a world I would wish to live in.
My belief is that true morality comes from a deep well within each of us, unchanging and always constant. This well that I speak of is the same well that all mankind has access to. We are all conduits for this well. some choose to deny this well while others embrace it. I also believe this is what Jesus was trying to get across when he said that the kingdom of heaven is within.

Thats my view. How do you see it?

As always, act as gentlemen please.