Individuals constitute mankind.  Mankind as a whole is only as good as the conduct and the scruples of its individuals - an individual represents of course a fraction of the Homo sapiens species, but each fraction is a sacred part of the human matrix.

This matrix, this template, should by nature contain a perfect balance with all those matters that are temporal as opposed to all those matters which are transcendent.

There should be no opposition as such, but a complementary relationship between this mundane, and the more lofty/spiritual aspects of life.

Without guidance as offered by scripture and the wise council of others who went before us, we are unable to enjoy life that is fully ethical and which possesses a meaningful reality, even if we do consider that our own behaviour, and the conductibility of our own life to be relatively normal and without blemish.  This is how vain we human-beings can actually be.

Usually, only when a man (man as such) is living at his middle age of 40 plus years, may he have the mental/emotional capacity to judge his own behaviour with a modicum of detachment: a smidgen of reality.  Women, tend almost automatically to reach to the Heavens and its ethereal attributes.  Menfolk, generally do so, only when following much of their personal worldly suffering.  It is a different timing, a different agony for each the other.

No. Man requires guidance.  In The Talmud it is stated that man is born with the evil impulse.  In Hindu Esoteric Ayurveda, it speaks of 3 types of man, but these 3 types of man inevitably suffer the effects of their own handicaps, and their own defects by virtue of the division of these 3 types.  No doubt, in other holy texts, Sufi/Islamic for instance, there are references to this mysterious inimical mutability of man.

What seems to be called nowadays: a moral-compass; which is the term spread about without much awareness, is actually mostly absent of us.  Whatever, mankind generally has the audacity to consider itself moral and just - when its judgements are mostly determined by its culture and its habits.

We, all of us are born with the capacity to know good from evil.  The problem is that we are so engrossed within the vicissitudes that life enjoys presenting intimately to us, that we are rarely able to experience the moments of clarity - clarity that determines whether our actions and our behaviours are becoming, or not as the case maybe!

We as a species, really do need this devil/saint alternating-current?  How can that be?  As is written within the great Tomes that have guided mankind throughout time (paraphrased): Without the yin/yang; hot/cold; summer/winter; man/woman; saint/sinner; individual/community; good/bad; them/us; heaven/hell; home and family/occupation and career etc., we could not survive as a species because we would not be able to deal properly with inevitable adversity.  

Adversity made us - we withstood it and we have grown and prospered because of it.  Even though we live in chaotic and unwholesome times, we are still here.

Taking the personage who adheres to the ramifications of ethics in action, he by definition, should also manifest in his behaviour ‘The Wisdom of The Ages’ and therefore should possess statesmanlike qualities - a person of substance.

There seems to be nowadays an absence of the true statesman - a dearth of men and women to whom mankind could look-up to.   Sadly, this has to do with the timidity and the feebleness of the present-day leaders.  We do not possess the strength, character and fortitude of our forbears.  This has much to do with the vitality taken-out of our soils, the medications we imbibe and EMF contamination - all having a detrimental effect on our physical and our psychological strength.  Also, because life in modern times has become easier for the majority of people on this planet, there is lack of rigour - rigour is required to engender the ability to steer through life in a positive way.

In addition, the down-side of the Democratic Systems of government disallow strong and robust political decisions that are necessary for the wholesome direction of a nation.  

There is a lot to be said for a governmental political dictatorship!

The greatest detriment, and in The United Kingdom especially, is its Godlessness - almost.  Awareness of the sacred, as opposed to the profane is almost void.  Even so, the sacrosanct is manifest, and exists to guide us morally and ethically.  

Nowadays, there is an absence of self-discipline.  Discipline that is usually learned externally anyway, and is generally gained via the military institutions  (Conscription is void for those born after 1940 in the United Kingdom), is essential in one’s life to gain fortitude and strength of character.  

Strength of character is an essential ingredient in living an ethical life - a life of none-complaint, and getting-on with it (life), and living it; and learning by the errors made.  In which case, all the negative experiences engendered from within, that is, from one’s own behaviour, and those negative things experienced as they come from without (the outer world) should all be deployed to generate interior strength.  Strength that builds a good psychological inner life, and a splendid mundane grounding as regards to practical matters.  Also very importantly, a respect and an acknowledgment of the numinous ethereal world.

With a strong respect for the sacredness of life and the need for self-reliance, a human-being will then have the most important components to enjoy a full rewarding life without complaining of this, and complaining of that - he/she just gets-on with it.

Man’s true strength came with adversity, when ‘his back was against the wall’.  He became more self-reliant and industrious, and trusted his own instinct and his endurance, both attributes usually obtained from experiencing a rigorous life - a life that was/is aware, or became aware, of the sacred and the chastened.

NB: Though the term man is mentioned throughout, it has also to be understood as woman inseparable.