Posted by: newuser July 5, 2005
Right And Wrong?
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My views are slightly different from my alias-alike on this. ''What people believe is right is right. What people believe is wrong is wrong. '' Agreed to an extent. It's up to an individual amongst the six billions plus humans to determine what is right or wrong. Anything could be absolute right or absolute wrong for an individual, according to his/her belief. For eg. a rapist must be believing that rape is the right thing for him to do at the moment he does that. May sound weird, but I guess that is true, as long as the nervous system of the rapist is functioning well at the time of the assault. However, It's the consequence that leads him to believe what he is doing is right. Thats where collective belief should win over an individual belief to prevent such crimes. Thats the instance where rational/relative truth should supress individual truth or let's say absolute truth. Hence education, religion, culture, ethics , morality and jurisdiction are there as the determinant of rightness of abstract and emotional behaviours. Unless science discovers what is absolute right (unfortunately it has already conceded it can't), you got to accept collective/rational 'right' as the better 'right' over individual 'right'. How to persuade individual rightness to submit to rational rightness ? I have an idea- Sometimes you have to upset some people to get what you want, or in this case, what's right. Having the strength to get through it is yours and then some, how other people deal with things has to be up to them, I guess. Upset the individual till the rational 'right ' overcomes an individual 'right'. Am I right? I think I am absolutely right.
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