Christ said the path to life is hard to find and follow (Mat 7:14). Basically, it is poverty. People don't really create their own poverty; they are born into it. With about three billion people in poverty, you might not think it is hard to find. But finding it as a moral path is not so obvious. Not everyone in poverty finds morality.

So we need to look at the basic theoretical concepts. Poverty forces people to work together to solve problems. Solving problems requires all elements of constructivity, which is the essence of morality. Morality is that which sustains life.

But it's easy to go through the motions and be no closer to eternal life. There is still something more basic to eternal life. It is the ability of people to get along with each other. Christ said to make friends with this world's goods, so when they fail you, you will have friends in heavens (Luke 16:9). Making friends is the most basic ingredient of morality that creates eternal life.

It matters who you make friends with. Christ said, "If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that?" (Mat 5:46). He said to love enemies as well as friends. One reason why it matters is because enemies are often victims of one's own sin.

So the goal of morality is eternal life in a universal form, where enemies are dealt with fairly as well as friends. It's important to notice that a lot of do-gooding doesn't make friends. Frauds tell people what is good for them and create enemies by imposing something onto people. Morality is not a question of what is good for someone, it's a question of what people want done to them. Small minded persons abhor this concept, so it needs to be explained further.

Let's start with an exaggerated example. Let's say a kid wants candy, and the parent says it's bad for teeth and won't let the kid have it. Morality would say give the kid candy regardless of whether it is bad for teeth. Of course, this is an over-simplification, but not entirely. If parents don't let kids do a few things that are not entirely good for them, they will end up with kids they can't control and more problems than they can solve.

The basic moral principle is that you do what someone wants even if it is not good for the person who wants it. Of course a lot of complexities must be added to this principle. You try to explain the harm, and you consider whether the person will change his mind later. For these reasons, you don't do anything very harmful. But the all important point is that the first and most important part of morality is what the other person wants, not what you impose upon him. Only that will create friendship and eternal life. Helping someone against his will does not do it. The will of the other person defines the morality.

The determining influence of morality does not reside with self. Only selfishness resides with self. Aligning upon the other person's will defines the morality. This is a very narrow path which do-gooders do not easily find.

Here's another angle to it. If a person just goes around creating friends, it might not work. Say a Mafia type gives money to prostitues and free drinks at the bars. He might have ten thousand friends, but what about the other ten billion? The way to universalize one's relationship to everyone is to produce justice. Justice is the universal do-gooding.