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RE: Understanding What is Right, Good, and Moral is Our Responsibility
One problem is that many people want to determine what is moral for others when we only get to make that call for ourselves. How can you analyze whether an act is moral if you don't know the circumstances surrounding the act? And yet, we want to judge every act to see whether it fits within our definition of morality.
Perhaps that is what's happening to the people who refuse to categorize even though categories can exist, maybe the people who refuse to "set a line" not to be crossed are people who have been limited in the past by someone's desire to create lines for others, and don't wish to replicate this behavior because it wasn't pleasant for them when they experienced it.
When people refuse to be held to a reasonable standard, based in logic and natural rights, I try to hold them, at least, to their own standard. This is a sort of reversal of the golden rule. Many people are shocked if you treat them as they treat others.
Yes, reality contains the actions that are categorized as moral or immoral. Definitions apply to describe what is happening. Knowing if something is right, moral or good can be determined with knowledge of actions in reality and their effects.
It is up to each person to discern and understand what we all can because actions exist in reality and they affect others. Then we get to the same page of understanding and can move forward. Unity doesn't happen in disunity, disintegrity, disharmony, disequilibirum with others, or with what is happening in reality.
I think the understanding that we are connected is enough, the understanding that we all want to be good as you've mentioned before. But again, the problem is that some people want unity no matter what. They want everyone to agree with their morals and this is a problem because their morals are shaped after the life circumstances they have experienced which is not the same experiences for everyone.
People need to have the choice for it to be real. That's is why convincing others we are being watched by some entity who's keeping scores and will let them hurt and hurt if they don't behave to his will is ineffective. We can't force morality, we can't force people to understand an order they have not experienced and it may be worse if we try.
You could be the greatest witness of all, Steemit may only be surviving because of your work, but what do you think would happen if you told people you are the best and all who do not vote for you will be @mentioned in a negative article? You'd have a hard time convincing one person that you are good, let alone the best.