Massimo,

What no seems to point out is that good and bad are not some cosmic duel between righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. Even bacteria get it.

The problem is when we treat the good as aspirational, rather than elemental. Which tends to lead to absolutism, as anyone questioning the ideals put forth are necessarily bad.

If instead we saw ourselves as evolving from this basis, with all the higher order social constructs, such as respect, honor, trust, responsibility, etc. as resulting from complex interactions of this elemental attraction/repulsion, then conflict would not so easily become a race to the bottom, of us versus them, good versus bad. Rather each side might be able to assume the other would be willing to hold to these higher, evolved standards and social structures, potentially using such situations to evolve further.