Our existences are constantly being oppressed by pressures created by the misguided usage of widely misunderstood concepts: Good, Bad, Right, Wrong, Should, Shouldn't....concepts, qualifiers, such as these possess power far beyond what many of us consciously recognize in them—they effectively mold our entire beings, they shape our lives, our experiences, how we come to understand our experiences, how we feel about ourselves, and the decisions that we make.
The problem being not the inherent power possessed by the concepts themselves, but rather our understanding/relationship [or—more commonly—the lack thereof] to/of the concepts.
There are almost certainly no Universal Laws governing these concepts—they are malleable, subjective, abstract. They must be used and accepted only with care and with great respect to perspective.
Prior to using, absorbing, or declaring judgement in conjunction with these qualifying concepts, one must ask themselves questions like: Based on what? From whose perspective? To what end?—or simply an earnest and investigative, "Why?" One must be mentally disciplined, objective in their thinking, and non-biased (to the extent at which that is possible) in order to use and understand these concepts well.
Of course, there will be no "concrete" usage of these ideas—their use will always ultimately be a product, to a certain degree, of opinion. Be that as it may, they must not be accepted or used in the absence of due diligence.
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