In the simplest of words, people in the beginning raped, stole, murdered – they simply lived by a creed “if I can, I shall” (by the way, African – depending on their culture etc. and many Arabs still live by this) then along came God and said “Do not murder” and many other laws – Christianity, obviously an outgrowth from Judaism adopted the Biblical norms – people were raised in societies that had values – then people subconsciously felt “I can’t stand having religion” – so they overthrew the dogma of religion – and now that we have no boundaries, people are completely, sadly aimless