Babies know what's fair

This post is a kind of 'note to self' in this case I'm relating the quote and its article to thinking about atonement where the idea of fairness, rewards etc underlies notions of offence and forgiveness.
Babies know what's fair: "

We think children are born with a skeleton of general expectations about fairness," explains Sloane, "and these principles and concepts get shaped in different ways depending on the culture and the environment they're brought up in." Some cultures value sharing more than others, but the ideas that resources should be equally distributed and rewards allocated according to effort are innate and universal.

Basically, I think that if we can say that the idea of fairness in built-in to human nature, then that has important implications for notions of incarnation and also the way that we understand offence, punishment, excuse ind forgiveness.