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Good and bad are the simplest essences of morality. To call something good in the way of simple acts is fairly straight foward and usually doesn't cause too much controversy. Taking food to the elderly is good. Filling that food with arsenic is bad. Helping a cat out of a tree is good. Shooting it out of a tree is definitely bad. These are all based on the morality society creates and has passed down, like that helping the elderly is a good thing to do, but killing people is wrong, or that being kind to domestic animals is good but abusing domestic animals is wrong.

However, when a "good" moral thing and "bad" moral thing conflict, as in stealing from the rich and giving to the poor or killing a serial murderer, this creates a gray area. When this happens, its all about perspective. Most of perspective is more bias than actual logic, since the human desire for being on top outweighs what we are told to believe by others. If I was rich and someone was giving all my money to poor people, I'd say vigilante behind it should be jailed or otherwise persecuted. However, if me and my 8 kids were scraping rats off the floor of our dirt hut for food and the same vigilante dropped off a sack of stolen bread, he'd be a hero.

Another point is simply what we grow up and live being told. If you were raised by a young, rich heiress with lots of money and no sense of responsibility, you'd probably spend more money on instant gratification than someone raised by their grandfather, who grew up during the Great Depression and saves more than he spends. This goes for everything from political stance to morality itself. The human mind is to complex to have one template to think by, especially in America's free thinking environment. Odds are, if you're parents tell you capital punishment is moral in the case of murderers (as in my home) you'll grow up to argue that against people raised otherwise (as I do).

To sum up what has been said, while society is a mold to shape the idea of "what is right", "what is proper", and "what is moral", the ideas of "good" and "evil" are a web of perspectives and what-he-said's so complex no man could discern what the superior belief is.