Morality is determined by social consensus or the will of the majority. The “good” is what benefits society, and individual well-being is secondary to the “greater good.” In this view, you are expected to sacrifice your personal interests for the welfare of your neighbors, the community, or the state. It’s a morality based on collective obligation, not personal flourishing.
Ayn rand in Atlas Shrugged – ““You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God’s purpose or your neighbor’s welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure.
Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.“
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