It&#x27;s interesting to appreciate that the Chinese had their ethical views completely different than the Abrahamic religions at least as early as 2500 years ago (all quotes from Wikipedia):<p>&quot;Some of the basic Confucian ethical concepts and practices include rén, yì, and lǐ, and zhì. Ren (&quot;humaneness&quot;) is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion, it is the virtue-form of Heaven.[15] Yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good. Li is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act in everyday life according to the law of Heaven. Zhi is the ability to see what is right and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of ren and yi.&quot;<p>Also, even competing ideologies weren&#x27;t as primitive:<p>&quot;Taoism tends to emphasize various themes (...) such as naturalness, spontaneity, simplicity, detachment from desires, and most important of all, wu wei (inaction)&quot;<p>Also, the obligation of the rulers:<p>&quot;If the emperor did not behave according to proper ritual, ethics, and morals, he could disrupt the fine balance of these cosmological cycles and cause calamities such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, epidemics, and swarms of locusts&quot;