Personally I don't think there is, what is right for one is wrong for another but I'm curious to see what others think
2007-10-26 10:28:08 · 19 answers · asked by Witch 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No.
The idea of what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' is entirely dependant on the human definition of 'right' and 'wrong'. But this varies from person to person - for example, a theif is not going to think that stealing is wrong. This can be taken even further. Take maths, for example, a subject in which it is generally agreed that there is a single right answer to an equation, who defined that 0 was nothing? How can we give a value to nothing? Beginning to examin concepts like this simply tears mathematics apart. A similar rule can be applied to anything you care to name.
The debate of what is truly right and wrong is age-old. For example, by law, murder is wrong, but most people would think that it's not wrong to kill Saddam or Bin Laden. Just because of their actions, is their life less valid - are they any less alive? Is it wrong to kill an animal to eat it, or is it acceptable because we have dominion over them? Do they not deserve the same liberties as a human, just because they are different? What about smacking children? If a parent beats a child for doing spilling milk on the carpet, most people would say it is wrong. But what if they'd just smacked their baby brother or sister in the face with a hammer? Then we'd most likely say they deserve some kind of punishment.
Defining right and wrong, or even attempting to do so, is both the most positive and the most negative influence on our lives. It is what the entire law is based upon, but it is also the reason for almost all conflict.
2007-10-26 10:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Pebbles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the comparable techniques of the translation of no real which ability, cost or definition to real or incorrect. For there is not any such component as real or incorrect. in spite of the undeniable fact that many have confidence there is and elect it as such. All that's...is yet another failed concept in the international and in life.
2016-09-27 22:57:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How far can you go? Normally your ambitions need to be kept in check rather than encouraged. You tend to assume that anything is possible just as long as you try hard enough. Yet for some reason now, you lack your usual confidence. Either you doubt yourself or you doubt your circumstances. One way or another, you fear failure - and, thus, you feel inclined to contemplate a compromise. Do you really need to sell yourself so short? Absolutely not. Soon you will see why.
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2007-10-26 10:50:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you are saying for some people it may be right to kill another, but for someone else it would be wrong. There is a moral code by which we should all live. It is called the Ten Commandments. I think that makes plain what is wrong and what is right.
2007-10-26 10:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
okay, Miss D&D has spelled out precisely where she is mistaken.
Think, the thief might try to justify stealing, but he does not KNOW for one minute that stealing is right. That thief doesn't want to be stolen FROM in return! Why, he doesn't want to be wronged? It's human nature, humans are all human.
To kill for one's faith/country: well one claims to see the glory in it, but they have to convince themselves, thoroughly, because it sure is easy to condemn the threat on the other side for doing the same.
So you tell me, are peole actually confused about the difference between right and wrong, or do they try to convince themselves that the two are indefinite?
Think about it.
2007-10-26 12:04:48 · answer #5 · answered by ktp 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whatever the Bible says is wrong is wrong and whatever the Bible says is right is right. The Bible answers any question you have about life and if you have something such as "Which pencil should i use?" or something like that....It might but probably won't matter.
2007-10-26 10:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by J-Lee 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Right is the thing we try to get around of doing when we know it is the correct thing to do. Wrong is just wrong!
2007-10-26 10:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by just Reese 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many such things, because everyone's is different.
2007-10-26 10:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just think about what you are saying if there is no right or wrong how would you feel if i came to your house and took everything you owned and kill all of your family would you not say that is wrong
2007-10-26 10:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by dexter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No there is not. Morals are what you and only you want them to be.
" Do what thou wilt, and thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law".
- The Great Beast 666
2007-10-26 10:44:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋