If there's nothing wrong with it...
12 Step Recovered Alcoholic
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: New Zealand
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You could try the test for God's will:
is it;
loving?
pure?
honest?
unselfish?
As for our own feelings, if it feels good, it may not be good for you. If it feels bad, it may be just what you need.
is it;
loving?
pure?
honest?
unselfish?
As for our own feelings, if it feels good, it may not be good for you. If it feels bad, it may be just what you need.
Adventures In SpaceTime
Join Date: Jun 2008
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For me, justifying rightness by simply not readily discovering wrongness is an example of self-will run riot for ones own personal gratification.
Morality of right and wrong requires a sense of justice, and in justice there is always at least an upside and a downside to the said experience of justice in action. Morality is relative to the expectations of what has preceded the experience in question. When morality is not entwined into the said experience anything goes is the result, and this rarely brings enlightenment is my experience.
Morality of right and wrong requires a sense of justice, and in justice there is always at least an upside and a downside to the said experience of justice in action. Morality is relative to the expectations of what has preceded the experience in question. When morality is not entwined into the said experience anything goes is the result, and this rarely brings enlightenment is my experience.
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The problem is who decides what is right or wrong? so we're starting from a subjective stand point before we even start.
If it is merely what we preceive to be wrong then as mentioned anything goes!!
If it is merely what we preceive to be wrong then as mentioned anything goes!!
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Join Date: Jul 2013
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Funny you post this. I was thinking of a topic last night regarding abiding laws. If laws are written by many men and women who are in fact sick with self will run riot and active addicts themselves (I know this for a fact) then should we follow them if we feel they are not right? Does this not create a lemming scenario?
To me I am finding an inner moral compass of truth that I seek that I find transcends what is written. I am using regret as a guide. I find I have none when I know my own truth and decisions based on this, yet an inner nagging when I try to rationalize what I subconsciously know to be wrong.
This creates an interesting dilemma with respect to right and wrong.
To me I am finding an inner moral compass of truth that I seek that I find transcends what is written. I am using regret as a guide. I find I have none when I know my own truth and decisions based on this, yet an inner nagging when I try to rationalize what I subconsciously know to be wrong.
This creates an interesting dilemma with respect to right and wrong.
Laozi Old Man
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Originally Posted by dSober 
... is it right?
IMO most advertising, politics, corporate decisions and even law litigation is wrong in the absolute sense. However, it seems if you can get away with it... it must be right.
Michael Moore made a movie about this sort of fallacious reasoning titled "Capitalism: A Love Story".
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If it's not wrong, is it right... Can everything be put to an ethics test? What if there's a multiple choice situation where you need to pick what you think is the best solution to a problem? Are all the ones you didn't pick wrong? And the one you picked, right?
Look up meta-ethics, moral psychology, etc.
Look up meta-ethics, moral psychology, etc.
It`s ok to stay sober
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Originally Posted by dSober
Hmm, how about: If it's not Wrong, is it Right?
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I think my question got answered even more clearly for me recently. I think the answer, as Tommy suggested, is: not necessarily. I think it was my impatience asking. I now think the answer is: It's right when God says it right, not until.
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hmm i wonder how Jehovah wittiness make a decision on if its right or not to save a loved one who might need a blood transfusion to live ?
is it right or wrong ?
is it gods will or there will based on what they believe is gods will ?
is it right or wrong ?
is it gods will or there will based on what they believe is gods will ?
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