Guilt and Social Conditioning; The Evolution of Virtue

I appreciated the message behind the film Flame On. We cannot judge our best and worst qualities because what is considered virtuous changes throughout cultures, generations and even individuals. One person may consider someone to be too forward and aggressive while another may appreciate and admire their assertiveness. We can only experience the varying reactions we get at different times, including our own.
Guilt plays a major role in the decisions people make and so it is used through religion and the establishment of day to day cultural norms to condition behavior. If people believe, as the first narrator claimed, that prolonged exposure to homosexual images will pervert even “normal” human males, then the individuals who are constantly exposed to that belief will generally begin to believe it themselves. Social conditioning can guide a society in any desired direction, it has nothing to do with truth, it has to do with what the person or people in power believe to be right or wrong.