Right and Wrong Options

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Lets start this out by saying that I don't want this to turn into a debate about religion. We have FAR too many of those.


As a society, we have a detailed code of what is right and what is wrong. Laws are put in place to try to discourage people from doing something that is "wrong."

But where do these concepts of right and wrong come from? Don't say that it comes from some sort of higher power. First, that's all bs, but more importantly, these concepts of right and wrong have been around far longer than any modern religions.

What makes something right? More importantly, what makes something wrong?

discuss.

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Okay, I'd like to first point out that I'm coming down from a pretty good high so if I sound strange in any way, thats why.
The concept of right and wrong dates back to the most primitive humans, the greatest misdeeds being 1. Murder, 2. Rape, 3. Theft. The original sins. Don't go by the bible, this is the real truth. All decisions we've made, be it moral decisions or otherwise have to do with time. You might think that sounds crazy, but it all comes from time. Human intelligence comes from the discovery of time. The most primitive people looked at the sky and discovered that the moon waxes and wanes in cycles, that the sun comes up in a pattern, that certain mysteries of the cosmos revolve around some astrological pattern that they realized could be used in measurements. Not only did this discovery lead to other human breakthroughs, like the wheel or fire, but also led to the beginning of philosophy, the questioning of why and how we are here on this earth. Our questioning of life led to the advancement of our intelligence which is why all the futuristic adolescents of today walk around with little communicators that contact people from the other side of the planet or media sticks that hold thousands of songs and movies that can be viewed or listened to at a whim. Im getting off my point(we are in the future in case everyone was wondering. If we were to go to the past Back to the Future style, we would be the ETs of the 70's and 80's. The 90's were crazy, woman had lion's mane hair and men wore baseball caps and played with yo-yo's for the first time since the ice-age. This was really the start of our de-volution, sided along rap music, give it 50 years and we'll be beatig eachother with clubs again), let me just say that the original thinkers used time as their judgement. What do our oldest records say they would do to the trespassers of conscience....They would banish them for a certain amount of "time." The original punishments came from time. They would either banish or kill you, which in effect ended your time. haha. Follow this path and you will see that it al makes sense. I didn't conduct any research previous to writing this, this is all original thought.