[Serious] Good vs Evil

[AgnosAtheis]

How do you define good and evil?
Do you think anything is objectively good or evil? If so what?
What do you think drives people to aim for what they believe is good and away from what they believe is evil?

The correct balance of empathy and logic makes the best moral compass. Pretty much trying to treat others the way you wish to be treated. That said, what's good for you may not be good in the eyes of others. Everyone is their own person with their own principles and tolerance level. Even though good isn't entirely subjective and does not equal nice, highly emotional people are usually incapable of appreciating any degree of unfavourable objectivity. That's what I learn from dealing with "oversensitive" narcissists. Oversensitive here is quoted because they're only capable of looking out for themselves. Compromise can only be reached when the demand is reasonable.

There is pros and cons to everything: Good in every bad and bad in every good. What I define as good would be the act of upholding moral standard for greater good despite temptations and difficulties while remaining open to development and change. But more than the absence of mistakes, it's about how you act after committing one. How well aware are you about the implications or consequences of your action? Are you able to recognise feelings besides your own? Take accountability and admit your flaws? Feel remorse? Make amends? Change your ways if needed be? Overcome bruised ego? Rise above yourself? etc. Life is after all an endless improvement journey.

Tragically in many quarrels both parties usually feel this way. Even my statement above is abuseable in the hands of people who are completely blind to their lack of sensibility - people who are so dead sure of themselves, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge errors against the empirical evidence and meticulous argument presented before them. All they have to say back is often in the form of logical fallacies (most commonly baseless infantile insults and unwarranted invalidation while ignoring your points; intentional or not, this serves as provocative redirection). In a way.. narcissists are a lot of like obstinate gnostics. Just much much worse, that it's better to leave them alone than break yourself trying to make them understand.

Pain provides us the opportunity to grow. Most people just don't. Because humans tend to be more selfish than fair.