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Question: How do you determine what's right and wrong!?
were you raised that way!?
religion!?
Innate ability!?
society and it's rules and regulations!?
Reaction of people!? (*gasp* what that person did was terrible!)
everyone is born with a conscience!.!.!.!.when you do something "bad" you feel it!.!.!."man i really shouldnt do this"/ "i won't get caught" / "noones watching" why do we have this way of thinking!? is it a random thing created in are brains!.!.!.which just happened to develop over time from primeapes!? which everythind boggled down from the Big Bang!? or evolution!?
everything you see was by chance eh!? all the beauty of it all!.!.!.a bang in the universe caused a mass of dirt to be created!.!.!.with an ATMOSPHERE FULL life sustaining air!?!!! wow do you know how lucky we must be!? to be living!? knowing that we came from some "bang"!? or whatever you believe!.!.!.!.
I think there's gotta be a reason!.!.!.!.for all this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
simple!.!.!.its human nature!.!.!.temptation! we all want and need!.!.!.but its how you get it that makes a difference!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Morality for me is a matter of human convenience!. I do whatever makes my life and the lives of others easier!. Killing people and stealing just cause problems, whereas helping people will earn mutual respect!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
yes there is a reason for every hing to happen!. with out cause no effect!.nothing is by chance--as you think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Would I want it done to me!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
This one chooses not to judge nor to label anything or anyone as "right or wrong" "good or bad", etc!. as that imposes subjective viewing and leads to desires which leads to suffering!.
This one chooses to let all that is be that which it is and to respectfully live in oneness with all in mindful awareness, practicing generosity, loving kindness, compassion and caring towards all!.
This one chose to do that which may well prove beneficial to ones self and to all others as one attempts to do no harm to any!.
Your purpose in life is to live in harmony with all else that exist as you seek to understand and to fully realize the true nature of all that is which will enable you to assist all else to do the same!.
Do not be concerned with any supposed god or gods, with subjective judgments, free your self from desires and attachments and "be" in the present moment which is all the time that anyone actually has!.
Be well, be aware and be awake!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Society can't decide what's right or wrong for you!. Neither can religion!. A cop can tell you, "Nono, you can't do that!. It's against this here law," but you could feel that it isn't really wrong!. I make my own moral code, everyone else be damned!. Yeah, if I kill someone and get caught, I'll be arrested!. But it doesn't mean that, to me, killing someone is an offense!.
But you can decide for yourself!. It's really the only way!. Remember: Nobody thinks they're the villain!. I'm sure that to Hitler, what he did wasn't wrong at all!. Just an example!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think it all has to do with adult development and all that entails-- which can be quite complex!. If you buy into stage theroy: some people stop or reject certain types of reasoning and questioning of their values and principles as they mature to adulthood while others keep changing, adding and deleting to what they have learned and to what they think is right or wrong!. This often takes experience in life-- I don't think you reach maturity in reasoning or advance in development by only knowing and studying principles such as in ethics and then applying them to some rationale!. It does not hurt necessarily, but you might be at a "conformist" level of development, for example, applying all that you know from your studies and it really just is not there--your mind is sophisticated in it's obtainment of knowledge, but your heart and lack of experience reduce it all the level of your overall development!. Which is black and white: good/bad, right/wrong!. Most adults are in either the conformist stage or conscientious stage!. The conscientious stage implies that the individual is more advanced in that their self-construed rational abilities emerge as they distance themselves from the group and group mentally of the conformist stage-- while taking into account individual differences as they see others and ideas of right or wrong as much more complex!. If you contrast these two stages with the less advanced previous stage of development called the "rule-oriented stage"-- whereby the individual learns and abides by societies rules for the most part but is also prone to vacillation-- with judgments often being superficially based on appearance!. They are the people you might see who follow the rules of right and wrong, but this doesn't necessarily carry any real group or individual meaning for them, though they often very much "believe" in them as superficial value judgments!. also as the power attributable to the "other," for example, a corporation, the goverment, or whatever!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
If it makes you feel guilty, just different views!. what we think is right/wrong is only opinion really!.
Religion!? I don't have a religion really but I do believe what I believe, I'm not an atheist!.!.I don't go with organized religions!.
Society and regulations!? Whatever is best for the majority of the people ya know!?
Some laws I don't agree with but I go by them anyways because I don't want me in a sticky situation
reaction of what people did!? I wonder why they did it, I usually am not as judgemental as others automatically labeling them!.!.!.unless they've done something extremely harmful that one can't imagine!.
I think we think that way just because we have a soul really!. I don't know about those who don't feel guilty about anything lol!.
I don't believe in the big bang, the big bang means some tiny dot and some huge explosion they say right now it's expanding!.!.!.but what's outside of it!? I find it hard to believe!.
We are lucky, the universe is HUGE and probably infinite who knows!. I really do believe earthlings aren't the only ones living!.Www@QuestionHome@Com