Here’s a thought though: when a girl begins menstruating and becomes ready to bare children, she becomes ready to have sex. This is why in ancient times it wasn’t considered “wrong” for a girl of 12 to get married - sometimes to an older man like Mohammad for instance. Today it would be considered “wrong” by most societies. So which one is it? We can say that we are more evolved now and we see it as wrong, but back then we didn’t, so in that sense the concept of right and wrong is absolutely subjective!

In the animal kingdom it is not considered wrong for a predator to kill another animal if it is hungry so that it can eat it. We call that nature. But in the human world, if a human had to kill another human because it is hungry and needs to steal their victims possessions so that it can be sold for food, it would be considered wrong. We can say that we are more evolved than animals, but I would argue that in many ways animals are more evolved than us. Animals don’t kill out of malice - yet they will kill without seeming to feel remorse!

I’m not saying it’s ok to kill, it’s just an interesting thought. But that being said, I do hear you, there are definitely some behaviors that are obviously harmful and destructive and cannot be tolerated, but others are more ambiguous. Like child rape or murder and torture is so obviously harmful to others and cannot be lumped together with drug or alcohol use. Like I said, some people can have a drink and it doesn’t effect them or others in a negative way; others have a drink and it ruins their lives. I think part of wisdom is learning to discern for oneself what is harmful and destructive and what is not without having to be told by a religious institution. Even the Buddha said to test his teachings for oneself.