It also got there in part due to the “patterning” that mother developed with (sort of conditioned reflexes, thanks to her mother’s mothering skills, (and before that her mother’s and so on) and partly due to the current circumstances in which the infant’s birth occurred, followed up by the continuing circumstances as the child develops into an adult. There are rewards. The reward for living a good life is a good life. What else should we seek? Maybe there is a “Hereafter” (I certainly don’t know, I wouldn’t say there isn’t) but meanwhile we are surely supposed to make the best of now, best as in not squander it, this “gift” of our life and our future as a species. That all gets quite complicated so I won’t get into that for now, and anyway about such as this, what I think about details, doesn’t particularly matter. All that I say is for personal interpretation “It all depends”.
That one (re punishment and reward) then allows further implications, there are no absolutes (as in “right” or “wrong”). Everything depends on circumstance / context). That there is no “day of judgement” in which punishment and reward will be handed out (because there is no external control) might be extremely difficult to accept, that there is no hell waiting for those who have done us harm. But again that indicates our immaturity. (At times I would have liked certain people to get their “Come-uppance”). It isn’t a great deal different from the way a toddler might want Mummy to smack the step she tripped down (bruising her dignity). That doesn’t mean to say that we can’t / won’t create hell on earth, as evidently we so very often do either intentionally or inadvertently. “Fault” as a measure has very limited usefulness, as very often if fault is attributable one has to look back several “generations” to see its root. Faults there are, in the crust of the earth, and damage results. I suppose “blame” is a better term to indicate what isn’t too useful (except to be able to admit to oneself). All such “flaws” are nevertheless an essential part of inevitable change (the fourth dimension), and mention Escher and arch school on “order” the Ancient Greeks). Change certainly isn’t always progress, especially when Man orchestrates it for financial profit or worse, increased power, which by its very nature is a kind of “critical mass”, so now another implication is described.
As intrinsic to creation / the way the universe works one has to observe that at every possible juncture “decisions” are delegated down to the very nth degree, as that is the only “sensible” / possible way to cope with an ever diversifying universe. That begins to explain where “free will” fits in, but I’ll go into that in a minute. Long before that scale of human (and animal and even plant) events, as we have already mentioned, looking at galaxies or within atoms, and every scale in between, nothing is fixed or permanent, “decisions” or “choices” even regarding light travelling in straight paths (not always) are delegated as far down as is possible. Everything is “free” to respond to circumstance. The electrons in the “outer shell” of atoms (energy levels, don’t worry, putting it this way is near enough) can shift about in a variety of ways to respond to the “environment” in which they find themselves. But even in “glorious isolation” within a system of pretty well unchanging environment electrons are only “most likely to be found” in a certain “place” (energy and space get a bit inseparable at this scale). That even the “absolute”, light, which “travels in straight lines” is “allowed” within the rules of the universe / of creation to bend a bit.
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