Can we want to do the “right thing”?

Question from the Internet:

“How does one create a want for the right thing? Is it possible, or is it just will that can help you? Can we create a win-win situation where we want to do the right things and then we do them?”

The first problem is defining what the “right thing” is.

By default, we all want many things through the combination of the instinctive desires of food, sex family, and social desires of wealth, power, control, fame, and knowledge.

We all define what the “right thing” is for ourselves through our inherently egocentric and subjective calculations, while society, in general, also defines some standards, usually according to the egocentric and subjective worldview of those who lead and control the majority in society.

But are any of those values, aspirations, or desires the “right thing”?

According to unique, empirical natural scientists, who have been studying human nature in contrast to Nature’s system all our values and aspirations are based on our limited and misguided, inherently egocentric, and subjective perception and consciousness.

Thus if we wanted to find and follow and even desire the “right thing”, we have to find it “outside” of our egocentric, subjective, and self-serving spheres and whatever human society offers.

So we have to search for and find the “right thing” in the only system that can give you the “gold standard” outside of humanity: Nature.

In Nature, the “right thing” is the creation and nurturing of life. And that is achieved through the totally selfless, unconditional, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing cooperation of all of Nature’s elements, each finding and fulfilling their most optimal contribution while receiving for it justly and proportionately everything they need to maintain that contribution.

Similarly, each individual human being has to become a healthy, mutually contributing cell in humanity’s living organism that is also an integral part of Nature.

How can we actually want this “right thing” when it is totally opposite to our self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature that wants everything for itself like cancer?

We can get to “want the right thing” in two different ways.

One is the so-called “path of suffering”. This means the worsening crisis, the total collapse of our human system, wars, and natural catastrophes lead to such unprecedented and intolerable suffering that we will reluctantly engage our unique Human intellect that is capable of critical self-assessment and initiating self-change. And then we will do the ‘right thing” as a result of suffering, against our will.

There is another option. With the help of the right, purposeful and practical science and educational method, we can understand and actually, viscerally feel that it is in our best interest to follow Nature’s global and integral example and rebuild human society based on Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system.

Then we will prevent unnecessary suffering and get to know and feel the qualitatively much higher and effortless level of collective human existence through free choice and our own actions.

We do not have any choice in anything else, but in the way and manner we reach the “right thing”.