The Good: Introduction

"Good” is such a terribly vague and ambiguous word. From birth, we are taught to be good and to do good by the agents of socialization: our family, peers, school, church, workplace, the government and the media. If someone asks an average person what is good, he or she would have an answer: it is good if you don’t kill people. It is good if you don’t steal. But the problem with the word is that its meaning is constantly evolving through the different eras of human development, while also evolving in separate locations at the same time.

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