I believe that ethics are an effort to improve the odds of good outcomes. So it’s not that the universe is set up to reward ethics, it’s that ethics are set up to follow the universe.
The challenge is that what we’re taught is good is a mixture of generally useful rules, rules which are more useful to the people in charge than to the people who aren’t, and mere mistakes.
The universe isn’t set up to reward virtue.
I believe that ethics are an effort to improve the odds of good outcomes. So it’s not that the universe is set up to reward ethics, it’s that ethics are set up to follow the universe.
The challenge is that what we’re taught is good is a mixture of generally useful rules, rules which are more useful to the people in charge than to the people who aren’t, and mere mistakes.