Good based on what?

So instead of wondering if and how people become evil, I wanted to concentrate on how they become good. The guidelines for what is defined as good is usually determined by a sacred scripture. Here is a question though, who wrote or translated that scripture? They surely had some bias so even if the message was from a higher being, the scripture has been distorted and yet we base our perception of purpose, good, and evil on them.

The mind in control?

Look at the link and see if you think that this is frightening? People can understand how the mind works to an extent where they can connect a living thing to a nonliving thing and function as if it were a part of the living thing. This frightened me a bit at first. How do we know that certain people's understanding of how the mind controls the rest of the body are not already manipulating other things without the rest of the world knowing. This is to say that a few curious people fiddle around and results in a new discovery over complete authority over others, nonliving and living. Free will would be only a luxury that the authority possesses.

Identity and Conscious

In the case with "Genie, a modern-day wild child", I looked at Genie as any other creature. She did not know how to talk, interact with humans, nor understand how to use her senses as we do. In the reading, they described her as a stange-bunny and other animal like characteristics. Is Genie still not a living creature and has feelings and a conscience? Couldn't all creatures have a conscience then? Just because they do not understand how to act the way humans have been taught to act for generations. We tough to understand if something is soft, while Genie may lick the object to learn if it is soft. What is your stance on whether other creature have a sense of deeper feeling and conscience than some people may give them? Humans sure enough talk about other creatures as lower beings compared to humans.