[Telepathic Intruder]

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Basing your idea of right and wrong on your feelings may seem like the intuitive thing, and that is exactly what most people do. But a person can want what is evil as much as what's good, and thinking that whatever ever feels good is right and what feels bad is wrong is how we are fooled into doing evil things, thinking they are good. Correctly discerning between good and evil is a much harder thing that includes by necessity denying your own selfish impulses, which directly clashes with today's entitlement-minded people.

[Nateman]

...Correctly discerning between good and evil is a much harder thing that includes by necessity denying your own selfish impulses ...

Religion provides a short cut. The trouble is this: was your particular religion actually written by God? Eventually you have to depend on your own mind and reason even if that means you are fooling yourself.

[AndyJackson]

The problem is that to become something a society has to be economically productive or else it has to be really good a stealing stuff from other people. This requires subordination of individual wants to the well being of the group over all. Norms arise and the society prospers. And then you decide you can start distributing free stuff and free love and no consequence everything else and voila your society collapses.