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Right and Wrong Part Two

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handcuffs.jpgI mentioned yesterday that in the modern world (and in history as well) situations involving right and wrong are almost never black and white.

Take, for instance, killing. There are still rampant arguments today about whether or not the death penalty is morally okay to do.

Moving beyond the death penalty, we have people who kill each other for various reasons. Is an abused spouse who kills his/her spouse in self defense any less wrong than a mentally ill person who kills a random stranger?

‘Yes! Of course!’ you might say. But the spouse knows s/he is killing his/her spouse whereas the mentally ill person does not hold the same concepts of life and death that we do.

I’m not trying to start a debate about who is more justified, if killing is ever right, if ignorance is an excuse, or the other arguments you could get out of what I have said so far.

I am making the point that even in something that means so much to us – life and death – there is no black and white. Good, bad, right, wrong…these are all words that are filtered through the censors we have developed in our mind thanks to family, religion, media, and other social influences.

If you would like two book recommendations that will have you thinking about what is truly ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, then I recommend you read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and Speaker of the Dead. The second book especially (which you should only read after the first) deals the subjects of life and death and human beliefs surrounding them.

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Posted in Right and Wrong, Today's World on February 12th, 2008

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2 Responses to “Right and Wrong Part Two”

  1. Christopher Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    I WILL comment on death penalties….

    Once you put somebody to death, he/she can never be brought back if it is found that injustice has been done….

    AND, it offers the high and mighty something to “silence” those that they wish to remove from the scene entire…

    I won’t say that human life is sacred…there are simply too many examples of exploitation by people who are alive to prove me wrong….

    What is sacred is JUSTICE, whatever this means, intangible idea that it is…

    And right you are about good, and bad being subjective……

    REAL FAN of yours Aura…..keep the great philosophy rolling !

  2. Aura Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Thank you for stopping by again, and thank you for your comments.

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