Before I lay out my ethical system, it makes sense to define good and evil, and I will try while admitting that these moral terms are tricky to define accurately and with perfection.
One definition of goodness is being an independent person. The Mother and Father created each moral agent with sufficient free will to render her accountable for the moral choices that she makes. This implies that she thinks for herself, makes her own mind up about how she will act, and that she is an individual, independent ,and self-reliant, use her free, strong will to decide how to act. This also indicates that there is a power allotment element here: she will run her own affairs, and bully none other, depriving that other of the independence, free will and empowerment to run their own lives as he sees fit. She also will let none bully or enslave her, and this is her natural right because all people are made more or less equal.
One definition of an evil person is one that is dependent upon authority, her mate, her boss, her clique, her church, or family to make decisions for her and wield power her, power that is her natural right and obligation to wield. She has freely chosen to be bullied by others, and as a pack-creature, she would willingly join the mob passively or actively to bully some group-rival, some outlier or group-dissident. She is selfless and self-loathing with little self-esteem, and as angry and bitter as she is, she will accept living in a hierarchy, group-living, nonindividuating and seeking social rank and popularity imbued with countless, interlocking sadomasochistic games centered on the power of powerless that hold her and each other inside conformist down and back.
Evil is collective, hating, destroying, passionate and excited to suffer needlessly rom others causing one pain, or inflicting needless suffering upon a victim as an active sadist.
Good is individual, loving, creating more than destroying, reasoning more than feeling, and determined to inflict no needless pain or anyone, nor allowing anyone to abuse the self.
Moral good flows from spiritual goodness, so worshiping and adoring a benevolent deity is a good way to be good.
Moral evil flows from spiritual evil, and pack-living and causing or allowing needless suffering to be inflicted upon oneself without resisting—or worse-- actively worships a demon is an efficient way to grow in malice and menace.
Moral goodness, Dennis Prager notes, stems from the Bible, a positive attitude, and attitude and gratitude, wisdom, and thankfulness.
Moral evil, Prager adds, stems from satanism, or excessive secularism (godlessness), a bitter, negative, resentful attitude, knowledge and expertise without wisdom, resentment, and ingratitude.
The morally good person blames himself for his problems, and the morally bad person blames others, and the world out there for his mistakes.
Evil is hating the self or others, and good is loving the self and others.
When the evil person without values tears down the status quo, a benevolent, free culture and tradition, replacing cosmos and civilization with lawless, bad anarchism and chaos, that person is wicked.
None of us can live without abstractions, but the good person is loyal to his ideals and causes, but does not become a true believer in them, turning them into an idol or fetish to be worshiped, and spread by the sword by his totalitarian government, on orders from his guru and his mass movement.
The bad person has perverted his abstractions that his lives by into stereotypes and caricatures, an ideology that he enslaves himself to, and will use violence, big government, and intimidation to force others to side with him and join his cause.
Evil is unnecessary or excessive violence. God is just war, self-defense (we need guns in private hands) but it is not excessive, the only resort, or does he initiate violence for its own sake.
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