Some of the deeper layers of assumptions need to be considered.

To cultures, good and bad translate as right and wrong. That cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil.

While in the larger reality, they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. Essentially the 1/0 of sentience.

This is because it is the function of culture to synchronize society as that larger communal organism, with everyone on the same wavelength, based on the same languages, rules, measures, etc.

Yet our evolved thought processes are due to having to deal with the problems, not basking in the pleasures. Too much of a good thing can be bad. As well as "no pain, no gain."

So there will always be competing interests. Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.

Constantine co-opted Christianity for the monotheism, as the Empire solidified, while the pantheistic aspects were shrouded in the Trinity. Making the Catholic Church the eschatological basis for European monarchy. Divine right of kings, as opposed to consent of the governed.

When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics, morality and law.

The last 3000 years, of going from mostly tribal societies, where one's status was a function of what one added, not what one could extract or demand, to nation states of millions and now billions of people, might seem like a long time, from an evolutionary perspective, it's an eye blink.

There is much room left to grow.