Perception is everything. 3nodding If someone is taught a different system of right and wrong than another person, then how can you expect them to agree? confused It seems that there is not any definitive right or wrong in the world. The only reason that there is even the concept of morality is because we created it, partially to just keep each other from doing generally unpleasant things to each other. Say, for instance, that there is some type of heaven and some type of hell. Since there are so many different religions/systems-of-morality, how can everybody know what is right and what is wrong? I say that it is entirely based on perception. 3nodding If you do what you believe is right, even if everyone else thinks you are in the wrong, I would think that that would count as the right thing to do, and vice versa. Because of all the differences of opinion, we cannot be expected to enforce our own personal views of right and wrong at all times. We would all die if that happened (what with the violence that comes from enforcing different opinions). I suggest that we only enforce in small ways that won't aggravate anyone, and when the most horribly evil thing (to you) happens and you can do something about it.
Of course, it is important to mention that it doesn't really matter how good you act in real life. As long as you are truly good in your mind/heart/soul/whatever, you are good, and would therefor go to heaven, if it operates in the semi-classical sense I've mentioned. Anyway, if you are a good person that has been forced by circumstance to do a lot of evil things in your life, I believe that you would still be judged and rewarded as good. On the flip side of the coin, if you are an evil person that has been forced by circumstance (including any misguided belief that doing good things will get you to heaven even if you are actually evil) to do a lot of good things in your life, then I believe that you would still be judged and punished as evil. That isn't to say that people can't change, of course. Good people can become evil, and evil people can become good. One possibility is that, when you die, you would be rewarded or punished based on your moral alignment at the time of your death.
That's all for now.
 magic_doglover · Wed Jun 21, 2006 @ 09:09am · 0 Comments |
