Back in the day, it was called heresy to dispute authority.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.

That's because the function of culture is to get everyone on the same page, as one emergent social organism. The tendency of the orgasnism is self policing, the immune system resisting anything seen as foreign.

Simply being a member of the herd, one can't stop and scratch their ear, when the herd is running.

It is the little creatures in the forest that have to judge every sound. Safety in awareness, rather than numbers.

Under all the culture, politics and personalities, it biology and physics driving large societies.