Is there a universal right and wrong? If so, how are we supposed to know those?
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There could be, but humans will never know on their own.\n\nSee, humans are TERRIBLE judges of right and wrong. Just look at our history, be it through Christian creation, Evolution, Spaghetti-Monster creation, etc... it has COUNTLESS examples of violence and destruction as the result of human err and moral decay. IF there were a universal right and wrong, it wouldn't be known amongst humans.\n\nWe already try to find such a thing. Some find it in religion, some find it in just a belief in a higher being (not essentially a religion; religion is man-established and due to corruption), some find it in their own decisions (NOT SMART)... We DO try, we just don't do all too well.
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some things are right or wrong depending on the angle from which we look at it...while others are just wrong no matter what the angle...
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there is no guide or rule when u loving somebody,no right or wrong!!!just when the feeling are right,just go ahead!!!
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does not seem to matter what we do or say-when or where-we will always be wrong
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what people tell you is right, is right for you, and what people tell you is wrong is wrong for you, if youre evil, then, since most people arent, you'd be against most people. For you evil is right, and you'd know that for other people it's wrong, since they're against evil. You see, there aint much difference between right and wrong.
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Indeed, that is how it should be. All humans of all races should have equal rights.\n\nBut there is a fundamental problem with humans. Humans have a capacity for belief. Having beliefs can be a good thing, but more often than not beliefs lead to terrible things.\n\nOnce someone has a belief, whether or not that belief is true or not becomes irrelevant. The belief becomes "right".\n\nWhich leads us back to the original question. It's a matter of beliefs. It is a war of beliefs. There are some who believe that they are entitled to that land. More believe it is the "holy land". A lot of other people believe it was wrongfully taken from them.\n\nBut because of their beliefs, they believe that the ends justify the means. They are "right" so anything they do in the name of that belief is also "right".\n\nBut this is nothing new. It's been happening for millenia. Hitler did it, the Romans did it, etc. . It really is quite astonishing what acts people will perform if they believe what they're doing is "right".\n\nSo how can the US defend Israel? Because a majority of individuals believe what they are doing is "right". Why do "terrorists" do what they do? Because they believe what they're doing is right.\n\nBut who is right? From a logical "preserving and bettering the species" standpoint, both sides are dead wrong. Yet how often does logic come into play in situations like this. People's emotions are so much easier to bring to the surface than their logical reasoning. Especially if you cast it in the context of disparaging a perons's beliefs (see religious fervor).\n\nIn fact, all major conflicts in the past have invoked religion in one form or another as a tool for propaganda. Critical thinking is not encouraged, as it would cast doubt on whether the selected course of action is indeed the right thing to do. It happened in ancient Egypt, and it still happens today.\n\n~X~
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Why would a person need a text or tradition to know right from wrong? The golden rule is extant for all of us. Don't do to other what you wouldn't want done to you. Be fair, honest and care for your fellow man. All these things are pretty much universal but sadly overlooked, even by religionists.
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It is your call to decide what is right and wrong for YOURSELF. Telling others what is right and wrong for them is being judgmental.\n\nMorally speaking, I would suggest Matthew 7:1-2\n" Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."  and John 8:7 "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone"
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When they "understand" right from wrong.
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Because there is no such thing as a Platonic Right or Wrong-- no idealized anything.  There's only what each of us believes to be right or wrong, and so we fight for or against these things in an attempt to fulfill some kind of purpose, and because violence is more effective than diplomacy.\n\nDuh, isn't it obvious?
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Good Afternoon!\n \nMorals are objective, and subjective.  That is, genocide is always wrong.  Rape?  Wrong.  This morally so.  But person's intention has to be taken into account.  Take for existence a man putting a knife into another man's heart, and the second man dies.  Was the first man action morally wrong?  If his intention was to kill or harm the other man, yes, his action is morally wrong.  It is never right to intend harm on another.  But maybe he was surgurn performing emergency surgery on a patient, and the patient died despite the doctor's attempt to keep him alive.  So his action is not wrong, becuase the intention to save a life.\n\nThat is there a many actions that are morally wrong.  When Deciding if the person is cupable fo a wrong act one most consider three things: 1 whether the person knows the act is wrong.  2 whether the person has considered what they are doing and 3 whether or not they choose to do it freely, with out coersion.  \n\nThere are morally wrong and right acts.  If someone steals from you something they do not need, you will know that is wrong, no matter where you are.  But the act must be veiwed with the intention included.  Maybe it was someone who did not the object was yours, and thinking it belonged to some one they knew, would borrow and return it.  However, in this case it is not stealing, and is simply a mistake. \n\nLastly, one can never choose a moral wrong intentionally for the sake of another good.  That is always wrong, no matter what the more distant intention is, becuase the immediate intention is wrong.\n\nPeace be with you.\n\nsorry about typographical errors, I'm in a hurry.
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Like I said in my answer to your question "Does GOD have any question?" that \n\nHe gave a choice to select between what is right and what is wrong.\n\nThis choice of "WHAT IS WRONG" is basically devil. Now it is you who are dealing with devil and only up to you whether you kill it forever within yourself or chain it. Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) told that he killed the devil inside. It means every one can do that. Imagine if none of the person in this world select to do what is wrong then there will be no evil on earth and hence we can say that devil no more exists.
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It's not the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong, exactly. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You will agree with me that right and wrong is not the same as good and evil. It may be wrong of me to litter, but is that evil?\n\nSo Adam and Eve could have known it was wrong to eat of the tree, without knowing what it means to be evil. But it turns out that that is not the important thing in that story. What is important is that God said they would die, eating the fruit, which did not happen. And why did God deliberately tempt them with the tree in the first place?\n\nA modern interpretation would be that God intended for Adam and Eve to eat from the tree, and the fall from the garden of Eden is not a punishment, but rather a lesson in consequence and responsibility. It is only with the fall that humans can begin to grasp the concept of free will and of its associated responsibility.\n\nEven if you are not religious and do not believe in the story, you can still understand it on a metaphorical level, because the fall is something that happens to all of us as we mature. That is, at some point we leave the child mentality behind and begin to embrace our free will, taking with it the responsibility for the consequences of our choices.
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There is no right or wrong answer on this. It's what feels right for you both.
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can we really know what is good or what is evil to say which one is winning? all the causes and all the results have some sort of evilness even though they are claimed to be good, and evil ones have some sort of goodness within. i believe in moral relativism, and thus right and wrong are variables.
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yes...contrary to popular opinion.\n\ntwo wrongs can make a right.\n\nbut that this may only occur if the perceived "two wrongs" lead each of the perceived wrongs or wrong doers (unless one) into a greater fullfillment and realizations of what is perceptually right.\n\nhypothetical example..(and using myself as the wrongdoer).\n\ni curse(or slap) at you. you curse(or slap) at me. we each realize the misunderstanding (in relationship) which created the cursing(and hitting) was because we each had different perceptions. but after cursing and slapping one an other with fear (at the loss of what it was we valued in realization and relationship) ... was opened the possibility for us to realize why we cursed and slapped and then realized that our perceptions and values are actually similar.\n\nhappens all the time....people take lefts and rights into wrongs and rights (as are perceived) everyday....and at the end of the day....go home to realize what it is all for..?\n\nso that with the greater realizations....patience and acceptance become possible. rest is granted.\n\n\nbe well
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how can a sensible and reasonable person can question on frndship for being right or wrong..its always right and infact proper and necessary for two neighbouring countries to b frnds.......