Are You Right?

[dianaiad]

The decision is made by considering the actual intentions and consequences.

Yeah? Who makes that decision?

.......hint....I'm attempting, here, to expand the conversation regarding 'evil,' and 'good' into the realm of deity, since at least one of you guys has made a sarcastic comment or two about how nasty God is.....

 

[dianaiad]

Morality based upon reason, compassion, and real world cause and effect is far more sensible and trustworthy than the arbitrary, irrational, unsubstantiated, and inconsistent/disproportionate "morality" of ancient, primitive savages.

Who gets to decide which is which, and who is whom?

 

[Jim]

Is there truly a right or a wrong?

I’ve thought about this some more. If the question is whether there are experiences that everyone could have, that would enable all people to all agree on a moral code and a system of laws, I think that’s possible for most people, but maybe not all. If the question is whether there are experiences that everyone could have, that would enable all people to always agree on what’s true and what isn’t, out of everything that anyone might say, I don’t think so.

Or are right and wrong merely human constructs to assert perspective?

Sometimes I see concepts of right and wrong, and true and false, being customized for people to excuse and camouflage their unloving attitudes and behavior towards others, or their attachments to their ideas.