(April 12, 2012 at 11:11 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote: Right and wrong are concepts we have invented which appear to work for us, that being said there are a grand variety of situations where there is no clear line between either.
Decisions have so many consequences we can't even comprehend most of them. Yes if you were to cure every disease in the world that would be a good thing on the face of it but wouldn't that cause overpopulation? Where would all the excess people live? How many could find jobs? Would some turn to crime out of desperation? How long till theres just too much excess population, our system simply collapses because of it and we are reduced to survival of the fittest again?
There really is no absolute definition of right or wrong which always holds true. Every good decision has some bad consequences, every bad decision some good consequences.
You can't control consequences but you can control your actions, your actions are what defines you. Its really a question of how you wish to be defined. Killing someone, even for the best of reasons, would leave its mark on everything you are and everything you will be.
This is the thing though.. you need to take baby steps. Even before you begin to analyze morality you need to understand for yourself where YOU stand. Do you think an action is good because the intentions were good i.e. it was always about the ends? Do you think the greater good is the way to go meaning that the means can either be good or bad, as long as you make the most people happy?
It's these building blocks that I'm talking about tied with fundamental facts of who we are as humans that I think could be used to formulate some sort of objectivity.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
