RE: Do You Care About Being Right? Why It's Good to Be Right
Caring about what's right
That's the most striking part, to me, about this entire post. Yes, what is considered right (might) differ from culture to culture, era to era. But if the care for what's right is there, people would be more willing to spend time analyzing what action is right. They would be more willing to admit when they are wrong, strive to amend (for) the wrong, and consciously avoid making the same mistake again in the future. In more ways than one, a lot of people are aware of what's right from wrong. But because we've basically morphed into a self-serving society, caring about "what's right" becomes obscure and instead becomes "what's right for me" for a lot of people. I'm probably (most likely) looking at this in a big scale again instead of individually but I suppose because a lot of individuals have developed thicker skin against this care, it becomes easier for others to ignore what they know as right and consequently fall into a cycle of repeating the same mistake over and over again. And people with weaker mindset would go, hey, if he can, why can't I? So many examples off my head but yeah, they all boil down to
Caring about what's right
Because if no one gives a fudge, then it doesn't matter if he/she knows what's right from wrong. He/she'll probably just go right on ahead and do whatever anyway.
That's why people are confused and think it's all "subjective", because they are making all about them... LMAO. They blind themselves by the limits of their own vision. Moral right and wrong can be objectively determined because they are based on objective actions that happen in reality. Other right and wrong decisions can be evaluated as well, despite possibly some difference based on what has higher salience for us to value and give more importance. Each situation needs to be evaluated for all information, and given underlying processes and principles of thinking, we can reason our way to recognize what's right, given the same value as our ends/goal purpose/meaning, such as morality. That's the value we need to put to drive and motivate us. Caring fro what's right, care for truth, care for moral truth :) Thanks for the feedback.
It's probably human nature to think we're the center of the universe. I guess that's why there will always be power struggles because a lot of people want to be the one to call the shots. When all they probably need is the carebears.