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RE: Do You Care About Being Right? Why It's Good to Be Right
Yes, religions have helped to remind people of some good principles. We must think for ourselves and figure out and verify what's right and wrong on our own though.
Speaking philosophically, how does one determine the difference between right and wrong on their own? The standards of right and wrong are always subjective. Without a common frame of reference, one may believe something is right and another may believe the same thing is wrong. Who is right in that situation? How would one decide?
Realistically, I agree, we all must make our own decisions and come to our own conclusions. We must all learn how to process our surroundings and make sensible, rational, and responsible decisions.
How would one decide! That's one of my favorite questions, what determines morality... this is a topic I've been wanting to blog about for awhile now!
No they )right, wrong) aren't subjective, what's subjective is our ability to discern based on the information we have or don't have. But we can all reason and come to the right conclusion given the same information and ability to think correctly. Distinguishing aspects of reality can be done by everyone, and recognizing harm in our objective actions int he world will determine how wrong something is in moral terms.