A strict no to religious books to set my moral compass. Just don't get violent unless it's in self defense. Do the right thing. Empathy is key. How would I feel if I'm put in that particular situation by someone else ? That is my moral compass.

Being raped in prison or not being raped in prison?
Has always worked for me especially if I’ve ever found myself contemplating a criminal act.

To me this is always a dumb question. A moral compass. (Does it point North?) I simply poke everyone else in the eye because I know they want to be poked in the eye. No, that's the Three Stooges way. In reality I talk to children, animals, and people of any culture and ethnic group and get along very well with them. It doesn't bother me if their language is different. They may speak it if they like and speak it freely. Orange haired gods (or any other kind) do not affect me.

If be morals you mean standards of behaviour; principles of right and wrong... I use common sense, try not to treat people how I wouldn't want to be treated but don't let it slide too much when people are literally or figuratively punching me in the mouth. I'm centered as far as libetarian and authortarian. I think sometimes people are so it's my choice that they don't get vaccines and that is a situation I'm okay with a little authoritarian action. I am pro-immigrant and pretty democratic socialist. My political beliefs would be considered extremely Left-Wing on an ideological scale, meaning you tend to support policies that promote social and economic equality.

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Mere Morality, author, Dan Barker

There is only one true compass for anything, and that is Reason. Nothing else can possibly guide, except to one or another instance of disaster.

So much that gets in the way of living a totally free and relatively unmanipulated is our past mental programming.  It comes from the church, society, family, etc. 
 
These expectations haunt us because we gain a sense of confort by having a mental touchstone, something we aspire to, something that set expectations for ourselves.  The haunting is due to us choosing to be accountable to some outside agency or person(s).  And, being outside of us, these mental touchstones often violate the very sense of who we are as a person.
 
Here is what helped me get past all of this wasteful angst and anxiety.  First, I chose to mentally dump all of it, make myself a clean slate.  Then, I thought deep and hard about what was valuable to ME.  What was it that I valued.  What should MY personal touchstone/"bible" be.  It took a lot of mental effort.  When I got done I condensed down my own personal mental operating system to these ten very carefully selected words:
 
"I care about facts, empathy, and treating all people fairly".
 
This has been my mental touchstone, my "bible" for six years now.  These ten words inform all of my thoughts, and guide my actions.  The best part is that is all came from ME.  No outside agency or person to account to.  No one to feel shame to.  And, no more need for any cognitive dissonance creating defenses as it is sooooo easy to follow a moral/behavioral code of one's own making.
 
Coming up with your own base mental operating system will not eliminate conflict with others, but it will eliminate any mental conflict with one's self.

John Wayne.

I think an element of freedom lays with the moral compass.

If you would not like it happening to you then don't do it to others, and no input of a god is needed.

Pretty simple. Do good deeds as ability allows, and seriously make every effort not to do any harm.

That which is in my long term self interest.

External or internal?

Do your thing, you don't owe anything to anyone...just do not hurt no one in any irreversible way.

Don’t have one. Be yourself and if you are about to do something hurtful to something check yourself. No need to chastise yourself, just realise you are a little bit stronger in the ‘do as you would be done by’ department by not following a base instinct and forging new neural pathways.

I firmly believe that moral behavior is designed to enforce behaviors that are good for the survival of the group. However this idea has been high jacked by religion as a way to enforce ideology that keep thoae in power where they are.

The Golden Rule, as espoused by Confucius.

That little phrase from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is a good sentiment that captures the basic idea, which is really independent of Santa. Another one is "good is its own reward".

Morality -- actual morality -- is based on consideration of what tends to harm or hurt sustainably having the kind of society most people want to have. That is, most generically, a civil society where there's a good balance between protecting individual rights and protecting individual freedoms. Promoting that is in everyone's rational self-interest, and therefore everyone can find meaning and purpose and validation in facilitating it.

Quite simple, really ...

I like to be treated fairly in the best interest of my wellbeing.

As I am a social animal living in a social group, it is in my best interest to treat those around me fairly in the best interest of their wellbeing for the benefit of all - including me.

When I'm not pissing others off, they tend not to piss me off.

Christian 'morality' is amoral in that it, by definition, is whatever their god says is moral and is therefore outside of the scope of christians to make their own morality.

In a few words, empathy, reason and having good intentions.

I like to think im a decent considerate guy

Empathy, compassion and the Golden rule is a great start. Then I suppose some might say you can't be compassionate without god, etc....

Karmic like a Buddhist

I like yours.

I am pretty much a "Golden Rule" person. It seems to be a universal morality as some form of it appears in the holy cooks of virtually every major religion, so i see see it as a morality that transcends religion.