How can we discern “good vs. bad?”

Question from the Internet:

“When can human decisions and actions be called good or bad?”

“Good vs. bad” depends on our viewpoint of reality and the standards we use to measure good against evil.

Our inherent viewpoint and all the measurements we are using are inherently selfish and subjective.

We are incapable of seeing and evaluating reality objectively. Instead, everything is sensed and measured according to our instinctively and inevitably self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic calculations.

From this inherent point of view, good is what gives me pleasure and distances me from pain and suffering, and evil is everything that prevents me from reaching happiness and fulfillment and causes me pain and suffering.

As a result, we can never actually feel or understand other people. And this is why our world has become so fragmented and broken, where everybody is in dispute and argument with others and tries to succeed and survive at the expense of others. After all, from my selfish and subjective point of view, I can’t trust anybody since they are all my competitors and enemies.

Thus we need to learn and practice a very different view and comprehension of reality, where I can observe and understand things outside of and independent of my original, subjective, and individualistic perception.