The moral compass, how to orient oneself in his/her actions?

What is Good?

1. I take it for granted that a parent loves their children and wants them to be happy.

2. I take it for granted that every adult, similarly, loves children and the generations that follow him, even if perhaps less intensely than a parent.

3. The exceptions to 1 and 2 are pathological exceptions, which if generalised would lead to the extinction of Humanity

4. Loving is not the same as being happy. Postpartum depression, for example, manifests itself in the impossible reconciliation of exhaustion, our hectic lives and the love we would like to give or feel.

Good is therefore any action that contributes to building the world, the house of our descendants, such that they will live there happily.

Supreme Good is any action that will allow our descendants to live happier than us.

Good is the fundamental condition for the pursuit of Humanity. The fundamental meaning of existence: To pass on to our descendants our legacy, enhanced for them.

What is Evil ?

Evil can easily be deduced from 1 and 2

Evil is therefore any action that contributes to building the world, the house of our descendants, such that they will live there less happily than us.

Supreme Evil is any action that contributes to destroying the world, so that they can only live there supremely unhappy or not at all.

Evil is the slippery slope that leads us to extinction.

What about Good and Evil in the Present?

The future of our descendants takes precedence over the present. If the contemplated action is indifferent to the physical and social welfare our descendants, the ancient golden rule is enough to guide us:

• "Don't hurt others in a way that you yourself would find hurtful." - Udana-Varga 5:18 (c.500 BC)

• “What you don't want for yourself, don't extend to others. "- Confucius (around 551 - 479 BC)

• “This is the sum of duty; don't do to others what you wouldn't want them to do to you. - Mahabharata (5:15:17) (around 500 BC)

• "Do not do to your neighbour what you would take badly of him" - Pittacos of Mytilene4 (640 - 568 BC)

• “Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing” - Thalès5 (624 - 546 BC)

• "See the gain of your neighbour as your own gain, and the loss of your neighbour as your own loss" T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

• “You will not avenge yourself, or you will not bring any grievance against the children of your people, you will love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord. - Torah, Leviticus 19:18. (c. 538 BC)

• “All the things therefore that you want men to do to you, do them, too, the same; for these are the law and the prophets. "(Matthew 7: 129)

• “None of you really believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. », Hadîth 13 of al-Nawawi - Mahomet (570 - 632)

• “What you dread don't do to others; whatever you want it to be done to you, do it yourself for others ”Hans Reiner (1896-1991)

I guess you got the point by now

The Asymmetry of Good and Evil - Why is it so hard?

I don't know why, but human history amply shows, as I will illustrate below, that doing Good requires more energy than doing Evil.

Good is fundamentally nourished by courage, hard work and self-sacrifice

For women to have the right to vote, you have to have the courage to let yourself die of hunger and torture, you have to work and organise yourself in militant groups, in addition to your family life.

Evil feeds fundamentally on cowardice, laziness and the sacrifice of others

In order for women not to have the right to vote, it suffices to ardently desire that they have it.
Then staying at home, because you are afraid of being arrested.
Just carry your normal family life, and read, outraged, in the newspaper, the sacrifices of others, such as the horror of torture, by force-feeding, of heroines like Frances Parker.

It's tough, I'm the first to think it's not cool, but that's how it is.