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Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception
    #5943251 - 08/08/06 04:55 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I don't think right and wrong exist - other than within the constructs of a human mind.

Animals don't have a sense of wrong and right - even intelligent animals will just take something from another, its survival of the fittest.

They say its wrong to kill - but we and animals kill all the time without remorse.
They say we should not pollute our planet - but it wouldn't even matter if an asteroid hits us tomorrow.


So what is right and wrong?

Is it just a way of relating what is beneficial to the self?
Or a way of relating whats beneficial to the whole of life?

It seems to change depending on the greed of the person/s.


Is that why people seek religion, do they want to be told what is right and wrong?


Maybe none of it matters at all. So what if we blow our whole planet up with a nuke, SO WHAT?

I cannot determine whether the outcome of humans will be good or bad or for whom it may be good or bad for!!!!


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    #5943268 - 08/08/06 05:12 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5943282 - 08/08/06 05:33 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

i was going to reply but then i realized this is like asking "does god exist?". this type of question has already been debated so much that there is no real point in starting a fresh. why waste time going through the motions of presenting arguments and counter arguments when there is several centuries worth of high level philosophical discourse on this very topic? if you want to discuss the views and arguments of a particular philosopher or philosophy or some particular aspect of this debate, or present a summary of previous answers that philosophers and thinkers have given, i think that would be far more interesting/appropriate for this, a philosophy forum. but i don't really see a point in ignoring all the previous thought and entering into a relatively low level debate.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: soulcircus]
    #5943294 - 08/08/06 05:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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nothings really right or wrong, because everyone is right in themselves in acting the way they do, even if its something horrible, they did it because they felt it was right for their situation, however, acting in harmony with the truth is a different matter. karma is generated when you do not act in harmony with the truth, this inflicts suffering, however, all suffering is a form of love, to prod you in the righteous direction, whre your true happyness lies.




so then right actions are simply actions in harmony with the truth.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5943402 - 08/08/06 08:14 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I'd say it all depends on your perspective. From the insanely narrow vantage point of the individual self, of relative truth, there is right and wrong, bigger/smaller, self/other, etc.

However, if you broaden your perspective and are able to see from the perspective of absolute truth, then there is no right or wrong. No birth or death, no bigger or smaller, no self and no other, etc.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: soulcircus]
    #5943855 - 08/08/06 11:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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nothings really right or wrong, because everyone is right in themselves in acting the way they do, even if its something horrible, they did it because they felt it was right for their situation, however, acting in harmony with the truth is a different matter. karma is generated when you do not act in harmony with the truth




The truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5943884 - 08/08/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

"What is right for the person standing face to face with you; is left to you!" ...


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5944078 - 08/08/06 12:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

right & wrong = social common dominator

Although it is a dog eat dog world, it also has a few rules,

Stealing and Vandalizing property is universally unaccepted, you can debate whether the property was yours in the first place but ultimately stealing will be looked down upon,

Rape and Murder will be looked down upon, because everybody rationally say that they wouldn't want their family and friends raped or murdered, but I guess on a savage anarchy lvl, those things can be justified I guess. because anarchy in a way could be a better etopian approach, but anarchy is not a practical view when viewing the populous world, of course organizations will take place, it is human nature to form teams and alliances,

but having a system will bring about these destructive personalities, so you have to figure on being tolerant of such occurrences taking place, everyone has to endure system rules, where if everything goes maybe global consensus can be reached. The system kinda de-generates, 'viewing from the pig', it kinda produces a de-generate {underbelly}, we're all preprogrammed to follow a certain script, meaning subconsciously we accept many different standards that are deem-able to society, these hidden standards are enforced by your local law, state law and finally government law, and these laws effect people within each county or state, and how these laws are interpreted and how they generate pressure or organize relations, causes environments to form, these environments that form can cause drama, drama resulting from oganization reflected by the laws

So how does this all tie in with whether there is truly a right or wrong, the thing about that question in its context, all concepts that have meaning, they all have variable meaning, meaning there is no true meaning behind each concept, as there is no right or wrong concept, there is no time, no love, no strength, no religion, no poltics, no life, no death, everything can have no meaning,

now I just have a revelation about my brain, you have to count your brain a seperate sense, we acutaly have six senses, 5 plus the brain, the brain is counted because like other senses, its a sensory device that interprets information gathered but yet its meaning can have no meaning, just like any other that goes out

without touch you go numb
without sight you go blind
without smell you can't smell
without taste your taste buds can't taste
without hearing you go death
without the brain you lose meaning,


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: capliberty]
    #5944306 - 08/08/06 02:19 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

The mind sure is a sense! :thumbup:


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Fractalated]
    #5944386 - 08/08/06 02:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

No matter how you slice it, wearing white after labour day is WRONG!


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5944540 - 08/08/06 03:36 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

As the Dalai Lama says - if one has an open heart, there is no need for anybody to tell him what is right and what is wrong. He will know because he will be acting out of compassion.

The problem is that most people in the west detach their minds from their emotions. When this happens questions like 'Right or Wrong' can be argued on purely mental level. This means we can talk about the death sentence, Middle East conflict, etc. without any kind of compassion for those who are or will be hurt by those issues. In the safety of our mind we can stay happily oblivious to the suffering of others.

So to answer the original question, yes I think there exists right from wrong and the only way to truly know it is to open ones heart.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Deviate]
    #5945129 - 08/08/06 06:38 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

My apologies but philosophy is something I do mainly myself, I havn't read the "several centuries worth of high level philosophical discourse" you speak of.

Perhaps it would of been useful if your post could of contained "a summary of previous answers that philosophers and thinkers have given".

That would be far more interesting/appropriate a reply to such a post.


I'm just interested in hearing others viewpoints.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5961961 - 08/14/06 07:18 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

lol pwnedshakalaka


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5962206 - 08/14/06 10:07 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

whats wrong with detaching our minds from our emotions? if your emotions tell you whats right and wrong your a women...

edit:"all women are slaves to there emotions"
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who then kicked him in the face
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Edited by flo (08/14/06 11:15 AM)


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: flo]
    #5962356 - 08/14/06 11:01 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yea, right. What's wrong is that when we detach our minds from our emotions we cease to connect to other human beings and the world around us in a meaningful and compassionate way. There is NO WAY we could ever hurt other people or the world we live in if we would live with our hearts wide open, because that would hurt US too much.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5962392 - 08/14/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

It's strange that people turn vegetarian when every human has incisor and canine teeth to eat meat with.

like they say plastic would take a couple hundred or million years to dissolve in the environment or something like that. And while we, as humans, don't have that time, mother nature will just sit here for as long as it takes and inevitably take everything back. whether some massive catastrophe, global warming overtakes everything, we kill ourselves with pollution, or whatever. everything will go back to the way they were.


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Cracka_X]
    #5962404 - 08/14/06 11:20 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Maybe we have incisors to eat acorns, fiercely and ravenously


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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: RedNucleus]
    #5962411 - 08/14/06 11:21 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

girls don't need them to suck dick!


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It provides for all people
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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: redtailedhawk]
    #5962676 - 08/14/06 01:00 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Yea, right. What's wrong is that when we detach our minds from our emotions we cease to connect to other human beings and the world around us in a meaningful and compassionate way. There is NO WAY we could ever hurt other people or the world we live in if we would live with our hearts wide open, because that would hurt US too much.




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Re: Right and Wrong - Its just a matter of perception [Re: Ego Death]
    #5963640 - 08/14/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

sorry if I'm repeating, I didn't have time to read through all your responses.

you're right--right and wrong are constructs of the human mind, but I don't think they are limitted to humans, since its merely a facet of self-consciousness. it occurs naturally as one ponders ones actions and consequences... as one has to choose between path a, or path b, etc.

an alien lifeform that is self-conscious should also have their own morals that pertain to their set of knowledge and environments.

so i don't think its complete hogwash though, if that's what you mean. there is definitely something wrong about killing innocent people, for example, and there is definitely something right about sharing - whether it be food, money, toys, love, etc.


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