Originally Posted by Val
I don't think that good or bad is the point. People mostly behave as they've been taught to behave, and their environment teaches them what's acceptable.

I thought you generally needed some sort of underlying worldview or metaphysic to determine appropriate moral action.

Otherwise, you are using other people and/or environment as your model, which doesn't really get you anywhere absent some sort of overarching framework because you have no way to evaluate what you *should* be doing because you have no objective yardstick, so to speak.