Good and Bad: Just Stories We’ve Been Told – Morality as Childhood Programming

[ExploringReality]

The ideas of "good" and "bad" are pretty much based on your personal survival and the sense of self you've built over your life. What you think is good is anything that helps you survive and feel secure in who you are. What you think is bad is anything that threatens that. But in reality, there’s no objective “good” or “bad” in the universe – it’s all relative to you and your experience.

A lot of these ideas of what’s good or bad actually come from your childhood. Your parents, caregivers, or the adults around you taught you these ideas through rewards and punishments. As a kid, you learned what was “good” based on what made you feel safe or got you praise, and what was “bad” based on what brought punishment or made you feel rejected. These early influences shaped how you view the world, but they’re just social constructs, not universal truths.

Especially religious indoctrinations!!! These are core to your ideas of what's good and what's bad, even if you consider yourself not religious, it's in the air around you and that gets internalized through a process of domestication. Now you guilt yourself and have that inner voice of momma and Papa telling you your a good little boy or a bad little girl.

Edited March 18 by ExploringReality

[Yimpa]

Damn right.

[Aaron p]

Don't forget that ultimate goodness exists. 

That ultimately, it's all good.