How do you decide what is right and what is wrong? What is the standard that you use to determine the rightness or wrongness of a thing?
2007-07-15 06:32:01 · 15 answers · asked by guru 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I flash my wrongometer.
2007-07-15 06:34:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Paul II (JPII) did much speaking on this:
"Conscience, in fact, is the 'place' where man is illuminated by a light which does not come to him from his created and always fallible reason, but from the very Wisdom of the Word in whom all things were created,"
" Only a correctly-formed conscience rightly corresponds to human dignity -- a conscience that searches for the truth and, enlightened by it, decides. Therefore human dignity requires that a person orient his conscience in accordance with the lawful order established by the Creator; in matter of conscience he must consult the truth revealed in Christ and include the Church's authoritative teaching."
"The formation of on's conscience is a fundamental duty. The reason is very simple; our conscience can err. An when error prevails over it, it becomes a cause of the greatest harm for the human person ... " < JPII, L'Osservatore Romano general audience Aug 1983>
"Q: Isn't it sufficient to follow my own conscience?
A: It is not sufficient, therefore, to say to man: 'Always follow your conscience.' It is necessary to add immediately and always: 'Ask yourself if your conscience is telling you the truth or something false, and seek untiringly to know the truth.' If we were not to make this necessary clarification, man would risk to find in his conscience a force which is destructive of his true humanity, rather than that holy place where God reveals to him his true good." < JPII, ibid >
2007-07-15 13:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask God. He knows all the answers. Pray. Nothing is always black and white when you a person thinks about it and that's why you have to talk to God. If you don't believe in God, well, I can't help you because He is the answer. And, there is no "standard" to determine what is right or wrong. There are no levels or anything. Just think about it and it'll come to you, hopefully.
2007-07-15 14:40:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Depending on the question/problem, the in side of you always knows what is what. Well also depends a whole lots of other things! I think twice and review all surroundings of the question/problem. Then I think if it is right or wrong!
2007-07-15 13:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by luz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is relative, everything can be good or bad. We should look at context of some action or thing, compare it with other actions and things. Nothing is stable, nothing is absolute (except God of-course), the morning sun never lasts a day.
2007-07-15 13:47:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a simple one. If I can live with the decisions or choices that I have made and still look the world in the eye when such choices have been made. I must live with myself first and foremost.
2007-07-15 14:56:10 · answer #6 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I follow Kant's categorical imperative, namely an act is moral only if you would be willing for everyone on earth to do the same thing.
2007-07-15 15:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When somebody doesn't curb their dog (scoop its poop), that is wrong.
If someone hurts a child, or takes advantage of a woman, that is wrong.
When someone, or some group, lie to masses of people for profit - That is wrong.
Everything else, to each his/her own.
2007-07-15 13:49:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My gut instinct. If my conscious tells me it's wrong, then I believe in myself.
2007-07-15 14:49:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By standars set up by your community or society.
2007-07-15 15:19:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of how it affected you and everyone else involved in the end.
2007-07-15 13:52:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋