Right and Wrong Options

[elaboratedream]

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.

[Simba]

What's "right" and what's "wrong" is determined by popular consensus.

For example, when focusing on the group of people known as the Ku Klux Klan, it's common knowledge that hating on Black people and burning crosses is "right," and becoming friends with a Black person is "wrong."

Though, of course, when you look at the United States as a whole, you get conflicting opinions on what's right and what's wrong.

I'm confident in saying that a majority of us could agree that murder, rape, theft are unacceptable. Because an overwhelming majority (in the U.S., not just here) agree that it is unwanted, and so there are restrictions on the three to prevent them from occurring.


You could say that laws are also a restriction on freedom. You could also say it's a matter of whether people are capable of handling such freedom as well.