Morality.

[somethingillremember]

Going back to the original question, I don't think anyone really 'made up' a moral code. Organized it, yes, but the only people who could really be attributed to making our moral code are, at the moment, Mr.Evolution or God, depending on your view (or in mine, possibly both). As far as people who organized it, one well known person was Hammurabi, who made the Code of Hammurabi (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/31800.html). If I'm not mistaken, it was the first recorded set of laws (that we know of) stating that a person must be punished equally according to the crime he committed (I might be wrong about the 'first' thing). In other words, if you cut off someone's hand, so must yours be cut off.

But even the people who made lists of laws weren't just making things up. They were going by what they saw as 'wrong' or 'right'. So where do our views of wrong and right come from?

One explanation is evolution. Our species has learned over time that there are benefits for saving each other. If two team up, they are stronger than one, and both members of this team gain something from the 'friendship' if you can call it that. Over time, the animals that made relationships were the ones that came out on top. So over time, it was ingrained into the brains of our species not to do certain things, like kill each other.

Another view is the "God" view. That there is some being who created us with these moral codes that we are supposed to follow.

There are also some who believe both, that God controlled evolution to work out so that we could become like we are today.

Being a Christian, I kind of lean towards the third one, however I view evolution as less of a 'definite' and more of a "the best explanation that we currently have". My views on morals and why we have them are quite a bit different from many others, and I'll probably end up going into that later, but at the moment, I want to post what I've got written here :P.