Mistaken

 

If you think people are born morally neutral or basically good, you are lacking the right presupposition about human nature to come up with an effective, workable moral code to help people act better. Unless you know what the problem is, you cannot prescribe the appropriate remedy.

 

Unless you assumed that people are born depraved, you will not devise a moral system that will make the world better. Good intentions are not sufficient: the plan must work in the real world.

 

People are basically evil but not totally. Part of them is naturally good, and that is the part that can be conditioned into a good will, a decent moral adult of virtuous character, if that agent agrees to accept parental guidance and does discipline herself.

 

People are naturally in love with not having a free will, not being liberated, not thinking, and not working to better themselves. By parental inculcation of religious faith and moral training, they can learn to self-realize and become intellectually smart enough that they know what is going on, and then their consciousness will be clear-sighted and aware. At that point in their development and consciousness-heightening, they can apply their awakened free will so that they can choose to do right not wrong most of the time.

 

If they are progressing along the road of individuating and serving the Good Spirits, then their enlightened self-interest will motivate them to treat well spiritual beings, others and themselves, and this will lead to moral progress in society.