"Just because you`re right doesn`t mean everybody else is wrong"
p.s. ques. speically addressed to religious people
2007-01-30 08:48:58 · 31 answers · asked by Sir Alex 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It depends on if you and the other people are holding beliefs or making statements that contradict each other. If they do, and one person is right, by definition the other must be wrong. The only way it could not be so is if both were wrong. In other words, if we hold contradicting beliefs, then I may be right and you wrong, or you right and me wrong, or both of us may be wrong; but there is no way that we can both be right.
This comes up often in the area of religious questions, of course. Some people would assert that two people can both be correct about contradictory religious statements. But that is impossible. The only way it is possible is if you bring in the hidden assumption that when I say "right" I really mean "right for me and not for anybody else."
But I hold that my religious beliefs are not just true for me; if they were, they would not be objective statements about the universe. They would simply be a statement about me. I believe that my beliefs are true for all people, that they objectively describe the God who made the universe and everything in it.
You may say that I am wrong; but please don't give me any talk about my belief being true for me and not for you. That is disrespectful to me and my beliefs.
By the way, just because I say that somebody is wrong does not at all mean that I don't respect them or be friends with them. I have friends who hold beliefs much different than mine - agnostics, Hindus, Jews - and I respect them and their beliefs, though I think they are wrong. To say you can't say somebody's beliefs are wrong and still be respectful of them is a strawman.
2007-01-30 08:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by Gary B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you are addressing religious people, I will assume you are addressing Christians. If someone were to say Jesus is the Messiah and some other people said he isn't, you are asking if Jesus can be both the messiah and not the messiah at the same time. In other words, both partys would be right. The law of non-contradiction in logic would say that statement is incoherent. Either Jesus is the Messiah, or he isn't, but he cannot be both at the same time.
2007-01-30 09:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-01 22:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This statement is hard to apply to anyone.
Everyone is right in their own eyes, and rightfully so. We learn as we go, and some people are further ahead along the road.
We also approach the truth from different angles and are often at opposite perspectives of the same object.
Ultimately, though, you should never scoff at anyone who claims to know something you don't. It's very likely that they do, and refusing to listen gains you nothing. (Just because listening might also gain you nothing is no excuse; you're smart to try.)
2007-01-30 08:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. interesting.... if you are admitting that someone else is right in the very phrasing of the question that means that there are two options - either you are implying that everyone else is right also (i.e. the fallacy that all roads lead to Heaven) OR if someone is right then everyone else is wrong...
2007-01-30 08:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by GreatWhiteNinja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreed.
2007-01-30 08:56:57 · answer #6 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian. I completely agree with that statement.
In no way is claiming that you are "right" automatically means that everyone else is wrong.
You may be actually right and everyone else wrong, but just by claiming it doesn't mean that it is a reality.
2007-01-30 08:52:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree and disagree.
There are undeniable,absolute truths.(universal truths) Spiritual,mathmatical,geographical,sociological,physical,chemicaetc.
Because you or I may not agree on any given truth does not make either of us right or wrong about every truth.
You and others may not agree with my accessment of your question,however that does not make me wrong about everything.(assuming that I am wrong)
2007-01-30 09:04:16 · answer #8 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are times when it can apply. Obviously not for mathematical equations, but definetely for religious beliefs.
2007-01-30 08:53:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course.
And being wrong doesn't make the other person right.
And sometimes the extreme position is the correct one.
2007-01-30 08:53:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋