[tylersch]

I wrote this this morning. Let me know what you think.

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The Basics and Basis of "Right" and "Wrong"

Why should we do what is "right"? What is the basis of what is "right"? Is it what you read in a sacred text like the Bible? the Qur'an? maybe some Buddhist texts? Many people follow these books and writings as a guideline for life. But why? Why follow what century old books say? Some people make excuses to not follow these books by using the age of the books against them and say they do not apply to life today. But what if we didn't have these books, no written guideline for life. Just plain action and consequence. What would happen? Would things be better? worse? the same?

Many people claim that humans are "imperfect". Imperfect to what? What is perfection? There are many different definitions for perfection, but what we'll discuss is the concept of "Moral Perfection". If you look up "morals" or "morality" you'll see it refers to the concept of human ethics, which pertain to matters of good and evil, also know as "right" and "wrong". There are many different moral codes and codes of conduct, but for the sake of a shorter article we wont go into every moral code, but we will simply translate "right" into "positive" and "wrong" into "negative". You might hear a lot about "positive emotions" and "negative emotions". Some basic positive emotions can be love, happiness, confidence, and kindness. As with most things there is always another side of the spectrum. In this case it would be such negative emotions as hate, sadness, anger, and pain. You might have heard of causality, different from casualty, causality is the relationship between cause and effect, sometimes known as karma.

So we come back to the question of, "why should we do what is right?" Doing "right" onto to others creates a positive connection. Whether it is holding the door open for someone, or helping them out with a problem. People often become friends after this positive connection. But this friendship can also be tainted or destroyed with a simple negative or "wrong" action. Such can be telling others a secret a friend might have entrusted to you, or as extreme as causing emotional or physical pain onto that person or a friend of theirs. So you might say the right or positive thing to do, is to do things that bring positive emotions to yourself and to others. Also, you could say that the wrong or negative thing to do is to do things that bring negative emotions to yourself and to others.

Its not always easy to do good or do what is "right" in this sense. A lot of times young children and even adults tend to follow along with what their peers are doing, whether or not there is verbal or active pressure. Now this can be a good thing and a bad thing. If your peers are positive and do positive things, you can learn that from them and apply it in your own life. Also, if your peers are negative and do negative things that harm themselves or others emotionally and/or physically you can pick up on their attitude and actions.

Making a conscience effort to improve your life and the lives of others takes a lot of character. It should be admired and respected.

I think people can follow this path of doing "wrong" or being "negative", thinking that they are just fine. A lot of people do this until one day something major happens, and then realize that what they are doing is creating a major negative effect on their lives and the lives of others. They realize they have to make a change in their lives. But yet some people that have this attitude are lazy, ignorant, and might not see it as worthwhile. But there are those who take a active and conscious decision to fix in there life what is causing that negativity. Some may need a little help to get them in the right direction but ultimately it should be them putting in the conscience effort to make a positive change.

People that are negative just make life harder on themselves, sometimes causing them to become even more negative. It's a vicious cycle.
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