Corrupted persons assume that sin pays and morality is stupid. To make sin pay, they have to fight a perpetual war against enemies, but they assume the war is winnable. They assume morality is stupid because it creates vulnerability which other persons will take advantage of. That's knowing a lot, which is why faith is a summary of religion. Here's a brief summary of why morality pays and sin does not.
Constructive effort is needed to create anything.
There would be no way to make sin pay if someone were not applying moral standards to the creation of life. But even more important are the secondary effects of morality and sin. Moral persons learn constructivity which gives them character and makes them worth something. Sinful persons define themselves as destroyers making them objectionable to everyone. Persons who have faith in destructivity have no faith in constructivity.