After watching “It’s a Good Life” on The Twilight Zone, you start to realize that this whole “there’s no such thing as objective good or objective bad, morality is relative” is just self-protective. We’re just afraid of real evil. We’re just afraid of real good. Because we can’t control it. Because we didn’t decide on it.
This episode of a TV show about a boy who can and does kill you if you think anything he does is “evil” or anything he hates is “good” points out that we’d rather change the definition of good and evil if it makes us feel safe…than risk ourselves by confronting Real Evil, or protecting Real Good.
The townspeople would rather say murdering dogs and children is Good, and life without food or music is Good, than stand up to the terrifying Real Evil.
Go watch that episode, where they say “It’s a Good Life” as their crops freeze and their music and art disappears—then come tell me that “everyone’s definition of good and evil is what’s right for them.”