Saturday, 30 August 2008

Sahi Yeah Galat !!!

What is right and what is wrong?? How do we exactly define these terms…..what do you mean by saying he did something right or wrong…..why am I supposed to feel good when I hear someone did something right or feel bad if someone did something wrong. Who decides what is right or wrong and from a person’s point of view why doing wrong thing is bad or right thing is good. Right or wrong may be assumed as broad classifications each including a set of actions which forms a good or bad opinion in the mind of an observer. Actually mentioning the action is also not necessary just using word right or wrong would suffice. For eg:- He wronged him….opinion:-he did something bad(no idea about the action)…..What I understand from general point of viewis if there is any court of law with God as judge wrong will be punished and right will be rewarded. But are the laws objective or subjective. For eg Opinion about killer:-“Killing a man”…this sounds wrong…..”Killing a man who is rapist, murderer, member of mafia”..now it seems right…..”Killing an innocent man”..sounds wrong…..”Killing an innocent man because family, relatives of the killer were threatened”..now it doesn’t sound so wrong its sort of neutral….So all the laws which decide whether an action was right or wrong are based on conditions. In each action if one person is harmed other gains from it. We can say action was right if gain>loss, neutral if gain=loss and wrong if loss>gain. But how do we measure gain or loss…to each his gain or loss is most important. If we are so eager to classify things in right or wrong there should be certain laws based on conditions which define measure of gain or loss. But who decides these conditions, who decides whether in certain given conditions performing certain action is right or wrong….Society can’t be relied upon. Through generations of mindless propaganda our whole society is biased towards weak. Weak ,politically financially or legally, have exploited their weakness in such a way that whole mass sympathize, respects weakness of weak more then strength of strong. In any action if weak people suffer its wrong no one cares about if strong person is gaining from it. Actually society is biased towards suffering. In any action if someone suffers we neglect whole good coming out of it and term that task wrong . We cant rely upon society because its biased and cant be a good judge. So if we cant rely upon society it leaves the individual himself. But can we leave the whole power of deciding whether what he did was right or wrong on him. Each person has his own point of view and his own set of right or wrong. Even terrorist believes, with their own reasoning’ that what they are doing is right. Here at this point it starts getting funny we say your conscience decides what is right or wrong…you feel guilty on doing something wrong and happy on doing something right. But if my conscience says something is right and it doesn’t concur with society’s point of view then it means I don’t have a conscience. So at the end its society’s opinion that matters most. But as I said before we cant let society , an emotional biased impractical creature, be the judge of such crucial decisions. And since I don’t believe God exists and even if it does he isn’t going to come down to decide whether each action is right or wrong…I don’t think things like right or wrong exists. There are just actions…actions which each individual perform for his betterment or pleasure and they cant be right or wrong because as I said before we don’t have any set of rules.

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