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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^^ didn't really understand that... or at least how it related to the topic, but it was entertaining to read all the same....


but responding to my own topic.... my friends and I were talking about this yesterday when we were in a particularly philisophical mood, and we figured out what makes something wrong... haven't quite figured out what makes something right, but at least we answered half of it.

Okay, so it all starts with the concept of free will. As humans, we have the ability to make choices. These choices cannot be controlled directly by anyone else, they are completely our own. When someone does something that infringes on another's free will, that's wrong.

For example:
Murder is wrong. Someone chose to live, you killed them.
Rape is wrong. Someone chose not to have sex with you, but you did it anyway.
Theft is wrong. Someone chose to own the item, you took it away.
Drinking, smoking, shooting up heroin, w/e is not wrong. It's your choice, you're not affecting anyone else.
Having sex is not wrong in any context so long as both parties agree to it.
Inforcing laws against something that isn't wrong is wrong. Someone chose to do w/e and you didn't let them.

I could keep going, but I'm guessing you get the point.
Do you agree?