How do we decide what is Right or Wrong?

Question

Thanx for your answers :)

Answer 1

We mostly get it from the values we receive while growing up. Then we apply those values to our current situations. That's why there are so many different opinions in the world about many things. People growing up with different values. I learned most of mine from my parents, but it is never 100%. You learn things from friends, the teachers you grew up and listened to, the laws of the land, etc. etc. They all provide you with the wisdom to make your own judgments.

Answer 2

If by "what" you mean to decide one course of action, good or bad. First you must know that deciding write from wrong is not the same as deciding better from worse. Many people are fooled at this point.

You can expose the decision to certain tests. First check the scope of the decision. The time frame should be relevant. If you decide that your employee can never work without supervision then the scope is too big. The scope should be minimal. What impact does the decision have on unrelated things? This is equivalent to looking behind your target when you shoot a gun.

Have you used perfect judgment any place in your reasoning? These are judgments that require you to be perfect and there are many of these. This means using human judgment rather than divine judgment. If someone were to judge your soul you would not want them to be casual about it.

There are three sins of the record, lying, omission and denial. Denial is huge in decision making. You settle for some choices and you need to know there are usually many choices. Pride and vanity keep us from noticing many options that are in front of us.

Have we constrained the decision process well as a caring person? You have heard the expression, garbage in, garbage out. The best thing you can do is to imagine a circle of concern around you. When someone threatens you or you become embarrassed the circle gets smaller and can strangle you. Push the circle out to include inside your circle of concern as many people as you can. Try to include people you consider adversarial. Push it all the way out the street if you can.

Good luck with this. You need real practice however. Only reality seems to work and practice does make a difference. This is the main reason why wisdom and age go together as well as they do.

Answer 3

You have come across a solution that few understand.

Right and wrong are "decided" by us. No matter who someone attributes right and wrong to (parent, religion, society, media, etc.) ultimately we are the ones who decide.

What I can offer is the more rights and wrongs that you have the more emotional distress you will have. The more wrongs you have the more anger you will have when others break this rule and the more guilt you will have if you break the rule. Anger and guilt are directly proportional to the moral codes we decide to have.

Answer 4

We always have to choose between right or Wrong at times in life at different stages from childhood , boyhood, adulthood, prime time and old age..

In child hood one is helpless. and Stick of parents, frown of mom and dad, is the deciding factor..

This conditioned response continues in the adolescent years and is reinforced in School when Teacher instruct,advise,admonish student.

When the hormones are matured and rushing in Blood. then all past experience is forgotten and Instincts play the role. Looking at the opposite sex decision making faculty is shut down by Hormonal commands and boy falls for girl and girl for boy.

Act of courage is also prompted by hormones unless , a boy/girl is conditioned to ASK FOR PERMISSION BEFORE YOU DO ANY THING.

After the adolescent period is ending the manhood sets in and the boy/girl face real questions of existence, relations, society, good, bad, politics, religion, morality,

As the age advances he gets enough experience and based on his experiences and logical mind set and conditioning and emotions s/he takes the decisions of Right or Wrong.

This will continue till he breathes last or by some external force FORCING to rethink from new perspective. which ever is early.

Answer 5

There is no clear right or wrong. Only perception. However it seems as if the masses will dictate that which is right and that of which is wrong.

The masses theory is most clearly demonstrated by those who vote on this very site. I could be completely wrong yet still be considered right.

I'm not sure that I have answered this question without raising more.

Answer 6

I hope you do not mean if a person is acting right or wrong. This we learn already as a child.
But you refer if what we think or expose is right or wrong. This you cannot decide it; just time will say. The ideas or philosophy that are considered wrong, or better to say, unacceptable today, doesn`t mean they are wrong they are simply expressed in a wrong time.

Answer 7

What is right is what enhances life, and experience, for the greatest number. What is wrong is what diminishes, restricts, or damages it. That includes all species, and the Earth itself with its life support systems. We're not doing well are we, in spite of all the religions claiming to know everything and provide the ethics and morals we need to live? That's one reason why I think there's much to be said for atheism, observation, and rational thought (including over emotions).

Answer 8

We can decide what is right or wrong by our conscience,instinct and common sense.
By the way we were brought up, our conscience, and instinct can tell us what is right and wrong.
Common sense gives us all the questions in our head when we are about to do something wrong.
Like:
Isn't this illegal?
But this belongs to somebody else?

Answer 9

Right and wrong are relative magnitudes. Anything can be Right for you but Wrong for others or vise versa. Whenever, you decide whether anything right or wrong you need data so take data from your own or from the person who for are you going to decide. In this way you may decide something wrong for you depending yours personal data and same may be rights depending others data. For instance, one person says use of salt is not good, if you take his data he might be patient of high blood pressure so you cannot assert him salt is good by taking your own data experience. That’s why right and wrong depends the data whom are you going to decide.

Answer 10

Honestly, we decide what is right and what is wrong based on our conscience dictates. Whatever our conscience dictates must be trusted. Conscience serves as angel of a person to bring us goodness. What for do we have consciousness if this will not be followed. Trust your consciousness my friend. You know better as an Angel!