Is there ever a time when right is wrong, and wrong is right?

Question

Are things always what they seem to be?

Answer 1

arabianbard, you danced around it and were so close. I will finish the thought.

As long as you are basing right and wrong from your own point of view, then often right will be wrong and viseversa. But if that belief is rooted in something firm, like the Bible, then right is always right and wrong is always wrong.

Take your example of a barren tree in the dark, all other point of views couldn't see the right answer. In their mind they had made assumptions, but were never right. The only right view was that it was a barren tree.

Also not all human values are relative. Only those based on an individual, culture, or other changing view. If there is a stationary basis at the root of the issue (i.e. love, forgiveness, trust, etc.), then they are far from being relative.

Answer 2

Things are not always what they seem to be. A barren tree standing in the dark looked like a policeman to a thief; a ghost to a frightened boy; and a girlfriend to a lover who was waiting for his date - yet, it was just a barren tree all the time. Our realities are relative.
Similarly, what is right for me can be wrong for another. Just note the cultural differences among nations. Beauty, duty, goodness, truthfullness .. all are relative. All human values are relative. Gold is useless in a dry desert - unless there's someone who's willing to trade it for water. A knife can kill a boy or cut an apple to feed him. The use of the object can be good or bad, not the object itself. God is the only absolute.

Answer 3

They never are. Right and wrong are always being confused.

Take right now.

I might think something is right. Somewhere across the world someone thinks its wrong.

Right is wrong and wrong is right every moment of the day.

Answer 4

yes because right and wrong are made by our hands
read gibran khalil's "prophet" book

Answer 5

yes ...