This beautiful piece is “Inward Focus”. I guess people with real talent don’t need a lot of words to impress others. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/inward-focus-khara-scott-bey.html

It’s an interesting question. How do we decide if something is or is not moral? There is obviously a varying standard, or it wouldn’t be a difficult question.

If we look at modern society, we can see the variety in religion, sexual variances, drug and alcohol use, marriage rights and childrearing. Even within religions, the differences are fairly significant. Abrahamic religions have 2 major sects in Judaism and Islam, with Father Abraham being coopted by the rest of Christianity. Catholicism has over 20 branches, and half a dozen rights, then there are Lutheran, and the Church of England. Protestant branches look like a kudzu vine in a windstorm. At the base, all of these belief systems, should have the same moral standards.

I have assumed that communities or societies mores are based primarily on the standard religious beliefs of the majority of the people. The variations seen in communities where religions are intermixed are understood by accommodations mutually agreed upon by them. Through growing up exposed to these ideals, a child internalizes the standards (or not) and bases his conduct on those standards. That’s where we get the sense of right and wrong, good and evil. The expression of morality is how an individuals conduct effects those around them.

As I was writing this, it occurred to me that there are societies and subcultures that aren’t influenced by or have rejected religious belief systems. Those that I have encountered were reduced to survival or subsistence, where good and evil could be defined as living and dying. At a survival level, the only good is what benefits me, and another’s value is determined by their contribution to my survival. If you work your way up through the family and community to a societal level, it will probably create an insular society.