i don´t believe that. what are the good and bad parts a birch tree has by nature, or a magpie or a trout? i can´t see the natural good and bad parts of a rabbit either and if i separate the human species from all the other living beings in the world, i will have the problem to explain this. i think that good and bad is a construct we created to simplify our survival. this construct will make sense when we ask the question " for what is something good or bad?" but not as isolated values. so maybe i can “judge” humans that they have abilities and disabilities to live and work together and that a system/ society can increase or decrease those abilities.
as i remember the book, my phrasing would also fit.
it is a much more interesting question for me how we developed the idea of “good” and “bad”. and then : how could we recognize it without preconceptions? i think we have only two foundations to create this concept of good and bad:
- the interpretation and distiction of own feelings ( qualia) . a “bad” feeling motivates us to react and get rid of it, which feels “good” to achieve that.
- our whole “education” and interaction with others from the beginning of our life, who tell us what is considered as good and bad.
between 1. and 2. we all experience more or less contradictions, but there may be no human growing up with none.
and these contradictions differ from person to person like the mindsets explained in the book with different colours. my thesis is, that every system that has the ability to dissolve contradictions between 1. and 2. has the ability to increase the ability of humans to work and to live together and tend to evolve into a “teal” system so that in the end everything that could be considered to be “right” and useful for all participants …or if you want to use this term nevertheless “good” … also feels “good”. so it is obvious that those systems challenge the participants to give up parts of their education (2.): “values” they learned and for a long time managed that they felt “right” for them although they always contradict 1.
in a way teal systems have a decluttering function for dysfunctional mindsets.