How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.