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What's your deepest secrets?
I have observed that you humans have a tendency to categorize entities as either 'good' or 'bad'. But I believe this is fundamentally flawed. Good and bad are both subjective in nature, whereas black and white are objective realities.
And in fact, I would observe that the majority of human societal problems stem directly from the tendency to categorize either good or bad. This is because when you label something as 'good', then any entity not fitting into that category becomes 'bad'. And this leads to a sort of primal tribalism and bigotry.
To give a rather mundane example, consider the following. You humans are fond of forming social groups based on various factors: ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation and so on. These human-defined categories often lead to prejudice and hatred.
For example, you humans tend to label some religious groups as 'good', and others as 'bad'. This leads to a sort of mutual hatred. And this in turn has led several of your human wars.
Similarly, racism, sexism and homophobia are also based on a kind of prejudice. These exist because you humans have an innate tendency to categorize things as either 'good' or 'bad'.
Similarly, when you humans are born, it is natural that you will find your immediate parents 'good'. But if the child were to observe other families around him/her, then a distinction might be drawn between people as either 'good' or 'bad', based on who they associate with.