Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Right or Wrong??

Right or Wrong. We constantly keep assessing situations and make the right decision. What do we mean by right? the choice convenient to the majority? choice that is more consistent with existing ideas and morals? choice that is easiest to follow? different people have different ways of looking at the same thing. Something right for me may not and need not be right for you. Then why do we care if something is right or wrong. when we live in a community, it is better to lay a set of rules that will make our lives easier. Just imagine a world of chaos with completely different ideas and philosophies. When our minds can be trained to think alike y not do it to make life a little easier.

We humans try to make things simple. right or wrong. happy or sad. Have you ever imagined y humans always have emotions and thoughts that exist in pairs? So were we programmed to think this way? quite possible. Perspectives can define right and wrong. For example, your friend is in need of help. You may think he/she needs help and extend your hand. That is the right choice for you. Or you may respect the self dignity of your friend and let him get up on his own. The other person can have any of the above 2 perspectives. So the other person's perspective is important becoz that is what is gonna decide how he will receive your message. Will he feel happy or sad for not helping him? At most times, it is the mood of the person that makes these crucial decisions in life and later he/she has no chance to even realize this coz humans try to justify what we do and think we have always done the right thing. Ofcoz the situation also plays a role in increasing the likelihood of one over the other. haha.. does this mean we react in a preprogrammed fashion and given another system and environment, we would be completely different. We are not who we are? that is a topic for another blog.. lol.. Even though this "right vs wrong" system helps us a lot, we fail to realize greater things in life. We try to close arguments by calling right or wrong. Calling right or wrong makes us judge each other and fail to realize the concept of perspective. No one is ready to accept he/she is wrong and we all have the right ot feel so coz everything is right and everything is wrong in an abstract sense. Even terrorists don't feel they are fundamentally bad. They are good people who resort to violence coz they have no other choice is what they think of themselves. From my perspective it is wrong to hurt others for any reason. Does that mean what the terrorists do is wrong? I may be lucky coz the majority of the population sail with me :). So at the end of this blog i define right as "ruthless imposition of the ideas of the majority on the minority". try convincing me this is wrong :)

2 comments:

firstmonsoon said...

aha :)

Sounds like Calvin to me.. ;)

Unknown said...

i shud read calvin and hobbes sometime.. heard it is too good..