The problem is that good and bad are not some cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary code of beneficial and detrimental. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken and there is no middle ground, other than the energy of the chicken becoming a brief moment of the fox.

We confuse the ideal with the absolute. A spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The top down, father figure law giver is a cultural construct, to pass social mores onto generations of group members/citizens.

Think of reality as the dichotomy of energy radiating out, while form coalesces in. Think galaxies.

As biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy driving us on, along with the central nervous system to sort through the information precipitating out and referee the emotions and impulses bubbling up.

As is society that dichotomy of broad social energies pushing up and out, versus civil and cultural forms coalescing in, to define and structure it. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.

The problem is that in our linear, goal oriented culture, both sides of this dynamic see themselves on the road to nirvana and so those on the other side of the cycle must be misbegotten fools.

As these forms coalesce in, the energies will always be seeking out the cracks and weak spots. Which are then patched over, spreading the upward pressure around. Eventually these forms become too corrupted and break down, to be replaced by newer forms.

So morality is not ultimately some final, idealized form, but a dynamic process, just like the rest of life.