Can right turn into wrong and wrong turn into right?

[DiscipleOfTruth]

Introduction:

It's easy for people to say what's right and what's wrong. What should be done and what shouldn't be done. But why are we so quick to say what is right and wrong when we don't know the results of the actions yet? Sure, we need a system of crime and punishment purposed for the safety and protection of the innocent. However, this necessary way of running society causes us to think that something is clearly right or wrong regardless of the reasons and the outcome.

Scenario for the unbeliever:

If the only way that some random man could survive was for him to kill three people and went to prison for the rest of his life, does that make his action wrong? Sure he has to be punished, but is he wrong? This is to say that if he didn't commit that crime he would of died in someway.

Same scenario, but edited for the religious person:

If the only way that some random man could be saved was for him to kill three believers and went to prison for the rest of his life, does that make his action wrong? Sure he had to be punished, but is he wrong? This is to say that if he didn't commit that crime he would of died in someway as an unbeliever.


Please feel free to respond to the either or both categories regardless if you're a believer or not and to respond to anyone else's reply on the topic. I prefer to not set limits as to how this can be debated.

[Quath]

And that is how I constructed my unbeliever question. The man who murdered had bad motives but his action was good. It was good because if he didn't commit the crime he would of immediatly died.

I would say that it was beneficial to him, not so much that it was good for all involved.

I think you could modify that the three people he killed would become terrorists in the future and kill thousands of people. However, he did not know this when he killed them.

This is a case where they die and no one knows they would have been mass murderers and people may want punishment for the man. However, if people knew the future, they may applaud the man.