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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.