We tend to take a top down view of a bottom up process.

Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.

So when we assume good to be aspirational, rather than elemental, conflicts do become a race to the bottom, as all the higher order nuance, subjectivity and complexity is suspect.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Though only children are allowed to just revel in sentience. The rest of us must find some goal or purpose.

It's written in the Books.