Our creator is a loving God, and the divine creation is "built" with love; so to be on the side* of Good is to live from love.
A person motivated by love, thinks and does things for other people (and other beings), because of love.
This means that the Good person will often do something that sacrifices his own immediate pleasure, or causes himself to experience some degree of immediate suffering, or sub-optimality of feelings.
This kind of thing is inevitable, when love motivates.
Those who operate from other motivations that are not love, those on the side not-supporting or actively-against divine creation; see all this very differently.
For them; love looks pathetic, pitiful, despicable.
A life led, acts done, from love; look instead like foolishness, like being a dupe; love looks like weakness, subordination of my will to another's, service of somebody else's agenda, voluntary slavery...
Those who are not taking the side of Good, i.e. not living by love - generally regard those who do thus live, as pathetic and despicable.
But if love really is the real motivation for behaviour; then everything is different...
All that is done from love - no matter how small a thing that may seem - is an enhancement of divine creation.
And that which is done from any-reason-not-love, will tend to diminish divine creation.
Therefore, as examples:
Things done to serve an agenda of "altruism" will diminish divine creation; same with things done for "my" power and/or wealth or that of others.
And things done for comfort, convenience or pleasure of myself or of others; shall likewise diminish creation.
(that is: Anything other-than love diminishes...)
And things done from resentment, fear or despair (and the like) are actually an attack on divine creation.
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*"The side" references which of the two sides in the spiritual way of this world is chosen: either the side affiliated with God the creator; or else the side that is not thus affiliated. There are many ways of not being on the side of divine creation.
Note: almost all writing on the subject of relationships between the sexes, analysis and purported advice (all the "Manosphere" stuff, including that purportedly "Christian" ) is done from the perspective that love is not really real, not present, or is secondary in importance. Such speaking and writing is inevitably on the other side from God and divine creation.
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