Massimo,

How about seeing it as the relationship between the elemental and the ideal?

Good and bad are elemental, as the basic biological binary of beneficial and deterimental. The sentient equivalent to 1/0. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.

While, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" would be an ideal. Something we might strive for, but not always achieve.

So while the elemental is the same for every living organism, their ideals are the goals they seek to attain. The problem is that different ideals do fall in conflict, say between the fox and the chicken.

In fact, we might individually harbor conflicting ideals, such as between having our cake and eating it too, ie. short term appetites and long term objectives are often in conflict.

Similarly there will always be conflicts between different members of society, say between those who seek to transcend convention and culture, versus those who seek to sustain and re-enforce it, aka, liberals and conservatives.

So it becomes that tension between the anarchy of desire and the tyranny of judgement. Motor and steering.

Thus while we might heartly disagree with how other cultures conduct themselves, not to mention other people within our own, the only way to really change them requires first understanding the circumstances which might have driven them to such measures and whether there might be ways to educate them to other ways of dealing with the conditions, or alleviating those conditions. Otherwise simply condemning them for not living up to our standards is not only utterly futile, but often evidence of our own lack of knowledge.