What is right? and what is wrong in society?
Does a large number of people wanting to do something make it right? If i was born to want to do certain deviant things, if enough people feel the same way, does that make it "right"?
2007-11-01 08:41:44 · 3 answers · asked by stratmagic 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Moral absolutism requires God.
If God exists, He has already given us the tools we need to determine His morality. He has given us a human nature that includes compassion, sympathy, empathy and love. And we know instinctively that we ought to do unto others...... i.e. The Golden Rule.
The problem is that we need to recognize that those characteristics of compassion, sympathy, empathy and love have a foundation in God and not in some totally irrelevant feeling passed onto us by evolution. Feelings produced by mindless evolution or by society's behavior training have no moral authority over us. If my conscience is just a set of feelings, then why ought I obey them? Only if our conscience is founded in God would they have authority.
2007-11-01 22:36:55 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. If enough people petition the government they can sometimes get a law changes to make it legal, but even if something is legal it doesn't necessarily make it "right." For instance, capital punishment in some countries is practised, and a lot of people feel those laws are unjust. Likewise, in the Netherlands there was recently a group who started a political party to try to legalize paedophilia. Even if they had been successful it would still be wrong. Certain things like murder, paedophilia and bestiality are wrong. No matter how many people could agree with them, it is not the right of one individual to choose, because doing so will victimize someone else. Just because you are bigger or stronger than another person does not give you the right to impose yourself on them against their will.
2007-11-01 15:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by scarletxvi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How can we fully avoid judging someone else's culture, respect someone' right to choose their lifestyle, government, religion, etc. if we condemn their view as morally wrong? If I think it is wrong to force women to cover up their hair, don't I have a moral obligation to force people to stop that practice? On the other hand, what gives me the right to force someone in another country to dress my way? Don't you wish our government officials would dwell on these questions a little?
2007-11-01 15:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by g_doak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋