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 Why are moral obligations negative though? Your moral compass helps guide you in the direction to help someone whether mutually beneficial or not. Sure you may get a quick dopamine hit, but other than that helping people isn't always beneficial to both parties.

One could argue your harvest reaping as evil though. That was my previous point that I probably didn't communicate well, I'm a bit smooth brained. I'm not God so I don't think I could bring myself to do that because of my morality. However, if my family were in trouble then I'm certain I would be truly capable of a scorched earth policy on those who threaten them. This is where the "it depends" comes into play. 

I've never read the book of Enoch, but need to. I have always been fascinated with Revelations though. 

Thank you for the conversation