Ok so you bring up two children from birth. You give one of them a stick, and reward him every time he hits his brother with love. Everytime he hits his brother you give him a big hug.
That child grows up equating beating his brother with happiness. He believes that is a good thing to do.
That is a conditioned sense of good. However there is a difference between our conditioned sense of good and evil (for example at some points in society it was considered EVIL to have sex before marriage) and the truth of the heart.
The mind can be conditioned but the heart cannot. If you are truly in touch with your heart, you can go within yourself in each situation and find the truth about whether it is good or evil regardless of how you've been conditioned to think.
I speak from personal experience.
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