Knowing the difference between right and wrong empowers us to stand for what is right. This is the light to guide us. The darkness, however, is to be ignorant of the difference between right and wrong that keeps us from moving on the right path and way in life.
If we KNOW the difference between right and wrong, then we KNOW when to say NO and stand against what is wrong.
Only those who know the objective difference between right and wrong can have the care, knowledge, understanding, courage and willpower to stand up and say NO when wrongs occur.
Do most people speak or stand against the state/government? The police? Not yet. They don't yet know the difference between right and wrong in order to reflect upon the delusion of external authority that allows some men (masters/rulers) to rule over others and perpetuate a wrong as though it were a "right". The majority of people don't know what is right or wrong, and buy into what the manipulators, deceivers, controllers and dominators are selling. They are selling us the control over our lives. They are selling us which rights we do or don't have. They are selling us the belief in authority to externalize our power to a centralized group of people who don't really know the difference between right and wrong and often act like thugs.
Most don't say NO because they don't KNOW. Saying "NO" has become a lost word in this world where evil hides behind a veil or illusion of "good", and the right/good is often treated as wrong/evil.
Know thyself. Know the objective difference between right and wrong. Know your rights. Those who don't KNOW, won't say NO.
Most people have a lack of care of truth -- for moral truth, to know the difference between right and wrong -- which is an apathy for truth where they aren't actively seeking to understand more of the important things about how to live (morality). Instead of gaining knowledge from caring to seek truth, they remain ignorant from that apathy to seek.
Apathy begets ignorance, and ignorance begets confusion that leads to cowardice and laziness of inaction of how to deal with the various issues that present themselves to us in our current times. But caring for truth will produce knowledge and understanding and develop the courage and willpower to act and do something. Care defeats apathy. Knowledge defeats ignorance. Understanding defeats confusion. Courage defeats cowardice. Willpower defeats laziness.
When we don't live by the care for truth we don't get more knowledge and understanding of how to live better, we don't develop more courage and willpower to act to change things for the better. Our awareness is smaller and so to is our level of consciousness. This is to be "dead" in an unconscious unaware state of not grasping the importance of truth in life. When the important of truth is "dead" to us, we are "dead" to ourselves -- our truer, realer and higher potential selves we can potentially be. We don't know ourselves (know thyself). The "spirit"-"soul"-psyche-mind-consciousness is in "deadened" state, unaware of the potential greatness we can achieve through alignment and equilibrium with moral truth.
We can revive and resurrect our deadened "spirit" -- our unconscious truer, greater, realer, and higher self -- by gaining knowledge of ourselves, consciousness, how we function, how our behavior manifests, the drives and motivations that have us act in certain ways, and to care for moral truth as an important part of our lives. This will revive us from being dead in apathy, ignorance, cowardice and laziness, into the realer, higher, truer and greater life of LIVING in morality.
That is the path and way of many moral characters, fictional or real. Morality is the path and way that will have us live in greater harmony and unity among each other.