# The Judeo-Christian moral dichotomy Created On: 04-08-2024 08:40 pm Up:: [[Philosophy (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- A recognition that “good” and “bad” and adjacent concepts like “good” and “evil” are Judeo-Christian constructs that are pervasive in both society, as in how we identify people - “someone is good or bad” - and in entertainment (literature, movies, etc.) - “the battle of good vs. evil”. An interesting side-affect of this topic is how these constructs are used to identify people, and ultimately, dehumanize them. I.e., instead of recognizing that all humans are fallible, we instead prattle “that is a bad person”, casting an “irredeemable” social representation of just their behavior, but *who they are* as a being. When in reality, good and bad are simply labels of normative behavior. No behavior is constant, meaning that one can never truly be bad or good, but only exist, as a fallible human. Can someone do something bad? Yes. Does that make them bad? No, as that that person be redeemed. We exist, that is all. Instead of seeing people as constant works in progress - as dynamic beings - making good and bad decisions, day in and day out, we craft a concept of a near utopian-like society where the definition of morality is static. What does this create? Well a mantle of moral and ethical authority, which simply, requires dismantling. This occurs when someone who is perceived as “good” is actually “bad", for which there is a struggle to remove the label and see that person for their objective identity as representative of their behavior. - - - I believe this is discussed in [[Nietzsche]]’s [[Beyond Good And Evil (Book)]] quite extensively, with a strong focus on western morality.