No, actually I studied neuroscience in college and understand that behavior, including morality, is genetic in nature. Now sure, culture can push things in a certain direction, but culture is a reflection of the population's genetics, not some arbitrary overlay on it. This is why African countries are shit holes (both culturally and economically) and other countries are not. You're falling into the civic nationalist/neocon trope that dirt is magic, and you can change people by changing their upbringing or culture. That is not true, and in fact it's the reverse. Christianity took off because it aligned with the genetic predisposition of Western nations, not the other way around.
Those aspects lead to morality. Morality is relative, whether you like to think so or not. However, the big things like not stealing and not killing stem from the intrinsic empathy of a population. When empathy is low, crime becomes high, because criminals don't care about the harm they cause. Other things, like sexual behavior, are not intrinsically moral or immoral. However, they were lumped in with morality because it was a convenient and effective way to prevent those behaviors from becoming toxic. In modern times we have come to understand that sex isn't immoral, BUT, we're just starting to rediscover that hyper sexuality is psychologically unhealthy. Religious folks like to conflate things like crime and sex in order to impose their will on a population under the auspices of morality, but really it's about control and authoritarianism.
No, actually I studied neuroscience in college and understand that behavior, including morality, is genetic in nature. Now sure, culture can push things in a certain direction, but culture is a reflection of the population's genetics, not some arbitrary overlay on it. This is why African countries are shit holes (both culturally and economically) and other countries are not. You're falling into the civic nationalist/neocon trope that dirt is magic, and you can change people by changing their upbringing or culture. That is not true, and in fact it's the reverse. Christianity took off because it aligned with the genetic predisposition of Western nations, not the other way around.
That doesn't really seem like you're talking about morality, but instead maybe empathy and intelligence.
Those aspects lead to morality. Morality is relative, whether you like to think so or not. However, the big things like not stealing and not killing stem from the intrinsic empathy of a population. When empathy is low, crime becomes high, because criminals don't care about the harm they cause. Other things, like sexual behavior, are not intrinsically moral or immoral. However, they were lumped in with morality because it was a convenient and effective way to prevent those behaviors from becoming toxic. In modern times we have come to understand that sex isn't immoral, BUT, we're just starting to rediscover that hyper sexuality is psychologically unhealthy. Religious folks like to conflate things like crime and sex in order to impose their will on a population under the auspices of morality, but really it's about control and authoritarianism.