Stages of Moral Development by Lawrence Kohlberg shows an approach to morality and ethics that is multi-level, following a developmental process, and seem to be viewed from a perspective not-unlike general semantics, although it is not written in E-prime. There is also a link to a contrasting view as well as some discussion comments by others - including "general semanticists".
Lakoff, in applying second generation cognitive science to the question, in Philosophy in the Flesh, bases morality in two metaphors - the stern father and the nuturing parent, both of which have as their consequences survival.
Nora asked:
How does one person "accept responsibility" for something they may not agree happened...?
"The buck stops here." (Harry S. Truman)
A little extensionality with respect to time-binding yields the following formulations for morality.
Note that virtually all of them provide a formulation that depends on two (four) other very high level abstraction terms, 'right' and 'wrong' or alternatively 'good' and 'evil'.
It would seem to me that any notion, concept, understanding, etc., for the term 'morality' would depend on some prior notion, concept, understanding, etc., for these terms.
And since we humans exist, such as it is, in multi-faceted environments, such as physical, social, cultural, psychological, etc., we can take each of the above off in any direction that we can characterize as an "environment" thus generating some constraints. "What is moral behavior?" gets different actions depending on the context (environment) and what one means by the terms 'right' and 'wrong', let alone the more abstract 'good' and 'evil'.
I like the distinction that "moral" actions are commanded by an authority, usually "God", while "ethical" actions are reasoned out. This distinction correlates with "absolutism" and "relativism" to my way of thinking, each of which has their place in Kohlberg's hierarchy.
Such abstract structures my be "particularized", that is, supported by example and argument, in many ways. It would seem that significantly more verbosity would be needed to provide clear understanding of what anyone thinks with respect to any particular situation.