What is right? What is wrong?

[JamesWesley]

How do we define "right"?


How do we define what is "wrong"?

[TheParticlePerson]

Who cares?

[JamesWesley]

I do.

Why would you bother posting if you don't care?

[TheParticlePerson]

My apathy is a legitimate philosophy. What do you mean how do we define what is right and wrong? Do you mean how should we? The answer to either question can never be an objective one, rendering the topic useless. There is no right or wrong, only events and humans interpreting them.

[Sir Rhetor]

I'm just going to give you my opinion, but here goes.

Right is what is beneficial to your moral scope. So, if your moral scope is all humans, you wouldn't mind cutting down rain forests to give people new places to live. If your moral scope is all of life on earth, then killing a planet of aliens to save an ant would not bother you.

Wrong is what is detrimental to your moral scope; it is the opposite of right.

Let us be sure in understanding that only acts can be "right" or "wrong". People commit acts, and only their acts can be judged with a morality value. Atomic bombs are not "good" or "evil" per say; they have the potential to be used for both.

The thing I like most about my definition is that the moral scope is up to you. But generally those with a wider moral scope are seen by others as more virtuous.

[sickpeacer]

my opinion right side and wrong side(+/-), Positive had a negative side and Negative had positive side too. It means that Positive couldn’t life without Negative. For example, try to see generator (electric source). It couldn’t work if positive side consist in rotor/stator only. It need negative side. Earth couldn’t rotate if consist positive side only. Who created that? God Him/His self. Who created positive and negative side in human think, act and relationship? Evil It self but it had an authorized from God. So, why there are always differences? It created from the beginning! Since human fall. Since eve follows snake instruction. That’s why in my country they always said, woman is poison of the world, snake? – joke.
In the other word as a human, wrong happen because you never make right things or you never understand what the meaning of LOVE.

Regards,
sickpeacer
http://sickpeacer.tk

[JoeyKnothead]

Right:
That side of your body with the hand you don't traditionally put a wedding ring on.

Wrong:
Putting a wedding ring on

Really though, philosophically, right and wrong are a reflection of the individual, and society's moral or other values. They can be as far apart as day and night, and as close together as two fingers on the same hand.

[Slopeshoulder]

There is no right or wrong, only events and humans interpreting them.

How do we "interpret" the rightness and wrongness of events of willful action, and is there an alternative to nihilism? Are events and acts the same? Are interpreatations themselves acts or events? Are ethics possible? What is the source, foundation, or structure of our interpretation? Is it political, socio-biological, self-delusional, or is there meaning to the words right and wrong (ideal, real, pragmatic), and can this meaning be shared in discourse and community? Do human events differ from particle events? ParticlePerson, are we persons, particles, or both?
I can't get to a definition until you clarify.

[sineporf]

right and wrong, in the grand scheme of things, is a crock of dookie. If we dropped the nuke on society and everything went back to the way it was (without the nuclear fall out plus the flora and fauna), we would come to order and chaos

[nancyd]

There is no right or wrong, only events and humans interpreting them.

How do we "interpret" the rightness and wrongness of events of willful action, and is there an alternative to nihilism? Are events and acts the same? Are interpreatations themselves acts or events? Are ethics possible? What is the source, foundation, or structure of our interpretation? Is it political, socio-biological, self-delusional, or is there meaning to the words right and wrong (ideal, real, pragmatic), and can this meaning be shared in discourse and community? Do human events differ from particle events? ParticlePerson, are we persons, particles, or both?
I can't get to a definition until you clarify.

I agree that point of view and context have everything to do with "right" or "wrong"
However there are some things that are just wrong under any circumstance.For instance: raping an infant. Perhaps there is a alternate universe where this is the norm but my assumption would be we are speaking of this universe.