2007-01-03 02:29:38 · 13 answers · asked by iloveyou_subhash 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Bad and good are relative and subjective notions. So what you're describing is a paradox. The short answer is: yes.
2007-01-03 02:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by jimmyJoe 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
This should be a philosophy question. If the general consensus of the community is that something is good, a single person could consider it bad. The moral majority always dictate good and bad. They also dictate your law, right and wrong. If you don't like it, you keep it to yourself, move, or try to change opinion."
I've always had great respect for the Reverend Martin Luther King. When he was arrested and put in jail, other ministers wanted to know how he could justify his actions. He said that every man has a moral obligation to break an unjust law.
2007-01-04 16:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by towanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is your view on morality?
Is something wrong if the law says it's right? (like slavery, or abortion?) What does your religious guidebook say?
What kind of people are the "everyone" you refer to? Are they mature, spiritually discerning and wise people, or just your homies and the kids you hang with? Can you trust their judgement?
Just because a group of people says something's "good" doesn't make it so. Lots of people are in jail or dead for following dumb advice from their friends.
2007-01-03 10:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by Mmerobin 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If everyone's satisfied with something bad, they will call it good, and celebrate it. The relativity of good and bad, in this case, is therefore irrelavent, since the subject is morality... which is ALWAYS relative.
2007-01-03 11:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Never! People were satisfied and complacent during the Holocaust, did that make it right? Moral values should not be judged by popular opinion.
2007-01-03 10:32:32 · answer #5 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, if you are a liberal.
Terrorist = good
Marine with Medal of Honor = bad
UN, Iran, N. Korea, Syria = good
America = bad
George Soros, subversive foreign billionaire who hates capitalism and America and want a one world marxist government = Good
George Bush, not perfect but who is = bad
Snivelling groups needing a party willing to trade your tax dollars for votes = good
Rugged individual = bad
2007-01-03 10:36:13 · answer #6 · answered by Curt 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Good and Bad are both are relevant to what you consider normal. We Americans are appalled at the lack of women's rights in Saudi Arabia, but those in that country are cool with it.
2007-01-03 10:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If every one ,if you mean as in everyone thought something bad was good and I thought it was bad I'd just leave.
2007-01-06 02:55:06 · answer #8 · answered by JACK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's good for you it's not necessarily good for the others.
For example, doing a pretty bad thing to a person I provided my own happiness. The person got over it, and I'm still happier than ever.
It's life...
So... a BAD thing for a person can as well be a GREAT thing for another...
2007-01-03 10:39:40 · answer #9 · answered by nimeni 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
jimmyJoe says... "relative and subjective"
lying, cheating, stealing, murder, adultery is not relative and subjective... it is absolutely wrong!!!
hatred, anger, positive or negative attitude... now that is "relative and subjective".
feelings are neither good nor bad, they just are and it's how you deal with them that governs the outcome.
Jesus says... "Woe to you who call evil good and good evil".
In politics the bottom line is not 'right or left' BUT 'right or wrong'
2007-01-03 10:43:12 · answer #10 · answered by lovefights 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋