Hi Robbie, you may be right insofar as intentions of increasing peace and freedom align with good and intentions of decreasing them roughly correlate with evil. As a student of anthopology, they taught us there were universal taboos but upon closer examination, this is not correct. I refer you to the topic of a future blog reference Herodotus. In that time, some Persians considered the best way to honor the beloved was to physically incorporate them by ingestion; the Greeks favored burning of the corpses.

“One might recall, for example, an anecdote of Darius. When he was king of Persia, he summoned the Greeks who happened to be present at his court, and asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that they would not do it for any money in the world. Later, in the presence of the Greeks, and through an interpreter, so that they could understand what was said, he asked some Indians of the tribe called Callatiae, who do in fact eat their parents’ dead bodies, what they would take to burn them. They uttered a cry of horror and forbade him to mention such a dreadful thing. One can see by this what custom can do.note”