Sometimes lessons have to be learned the hard way.

Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

So maybe we need the bad, as well as the good.

What makes a society healthy is collective responsibility, with rights as reward. When secular society was first being imagined, the irresponsible were likely to starve, so the debate was over rights. Now rights are considered universal, while responsibility is optional. The consequence is the tragedy of the commons.

The logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

Ideals are not absolutes. The philosophers should have been all over that, centuries ago, but it's one more on the list of lessons still to learn.