What Are Morals? From childhood and throughout a lifetime, we are told what we can and cannot do. But why can we not do some things? Often times, the answer is, “Because it's wrong.” But what is wrong? How does one determine the difference between right and wrong? What it usually comes down to is what morals are directing the decision. Whether it is what an individual thinks to be right or wrong, or what a groups of lawmakers thinks it to be, generally all of our decisions on what is or is not permissible comes from someone's interpretations of morality. But what are morals? The dictionary gives many