If there is no God, where did morality, fairness, and justice come from?

Answer 1

How do you know your god's laws, say the commandments for example, are moral, fair, or just?

Answer 2

The same place the idea of God came from. THE HUMAN MIND!

Morality, fairness, justice, ect are aspect of sociology! If you look at how people that wrote the bible thought and acted you will see their ideas of a God are based on their sociology!
There is NOTHING in this world that came as the result of a God! Everything is either from nature or from human actions! This is because THERE IS NO GOD!

Answer 3

Morality, fairness, and justice evolved.

Societies with morality, fairness, and justice work better than those without, therefore these societies thrived while other, more anarchic societies eventually disappeared. But the values of morality, fairness, and justice are not fixed. They change and vary with the circumstances.

Answer 4

Society determines these things. At one time, Slavery was OK... and to many people's Gods, it's ok with them as well. Some peoples Gods claim to be fair, but would burn a person who stole to feed a starving child in the same way he would burn a murderer... leaving no argument. Mankind has always established laws to dictate to the whole of society how one should act within that society.

Answer 5

ethics and morals boil down to two things: kin selection (i.e. family comes first) and reciprocal altruism (i.e. scratch my back now and i'll get yours later). this is evident in the animal kingdom as well as our human groups. in general this refers to small groups where these traits were defined. the large groups like overpacked cities are less likely to hold onto these because of the anonymity of the individual. when everyone knows you well you are more likely to be ethical and moral. now kin selection is caused because every living thing wants to promote its own genetic makeup. the further away from your own offspring someone is, the further down the priority they are. we do things for our family and for other people to promote our own families. also, reciprocal altruism is the fundemental element of morality and justice. if you are not helping the small group, you are not going to be helped by the group. notice that injustices and amoral behaviours are generally when one person helps themselves, rather than the group. when this happens the group might kick the individual out and they would die. this is why we still get embarassed when we're caught doing something we shouldn't, or just didn't want people to know we do. at least there is this idea, not fact, but worth noting. people who cannot disguise their guilt and their remorse are way more likely to be forgiven. the child who steals the cookie gets caught and lies, but turns bright red and looks down. much easier to forgive and forget than the child who holds firm to the denial and lie. in all our morals are a product of our community evolution. even prides of lions show loyalty and morality. so do monkeys. and ants.

Answer 6

They came to be because primitive groups of humans that *didn't* learn to be moral, didn't last long. Groups that highly valued lying and murder died out.

Humans aren't the only groups that operate under those principles. Elephant females will adopt orphans at great personal cost to themselves. Dogs can mourn themselves to death. The hiararchy of a lion pride or a band of gorillas shows that they have an involved moral code and sense of justice.

Answer 7

Certainly not from any God described in the Bible.

Ethics and justice are simply outgrowths of our need to live in community with one another in order to survive as a species. The language that we developed helped us to create a way of communicating these standards and refining them over time. The simple guideline of not doing something to others that we would not want done to ourselves in similar circumstances has appeared worldwide. It's the best expression of our ethical responsibility to maintain the species and the planet.

Answer 8

Let's see, mine comes from a desire to be a good person, regardless of the existence of an after-life, or lack there of. It's just a little fake to be a good person in order to get a reward. The goodness that I try to share with the world is who I really am, and not because I am expecting something in return.

Answer 9

From an evolutionary standpoint, all of those traits are beneficial to the survival of any given population.

They have existed in every society in varying degrees, long before the creation of monotheism.

Answer 10

From Natural Selection by Evolution, society, culture and parents.