This week has been full of what I call rights and wrongs but how can you define what is right and what is wrong? If you think of it is just what a majority of society say what is right and what is wrong. People are just told and raised by what other people want them to be. How many people actually define what is right and what is wrong to them. If they do they just accept what they are told. I have friend who a talked to about my ideas on this and essentially it affects only three beliefs personal, society, and reality. Each of those beliefs complements each other. The quote I picked for this week is from Alice in Wonderland. "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) This quote reminded me of the man I was talking to. It was very odd to talk to someone with the same outlooks of change I myself have. He asked me were I learned about these ideas and I told him it was passed on to me from a book. He called me crazy and then we went on with our day. I just found it very odd to meet all sorts of different people in the world. So I thought what a better quot than from Alice in Wonderland to describe that conversation.
This is definitely something that makes you ponder and think about. If you think of it our ideals of what is right and wrong is based upon what society thinks most of the time. I think it goes even deeper also, I think society really determines our behavior. Mostly everyone strives to fit in with society and they base their actions and behaviors off of this. It makes you wonder how people would be like if they did not care about what society thinks of them. Pretty much our society controls everything we do which could be good or bad.
ReplyDeleteI have never really thought of right or wrong through this point of view. We all learn and become the people we are today by how we were raised and the people who taught us. For example, my love of animals, my grandmother would set me in time out if I even squashed a bug, teaching me it was wrong to hurt any of God’s creatures no matter how small causing me realize everything set on this planet belongs here and has a purpose of some kind. To this day I cannot kill a bug; I must pick it up and place it outside. What we know about wrong or right is what others believe it is.
ReplyDeleteIts crazy to think about it that way. Well, not necessarily crazy, but it is different, and somewhat refreshing that someone is actually thinking. I think we each have a gut feeling of what is right and wrong, a moral standard in our brain, but we go by what society and family says and has done, just to be “normal”. Theres so many ways to think about it, that it could possible drive a person "mad".
ReplyDeleteWow!That makes a person wonder what is truly right or wrong? I guess what we feel in our hearts must be the right way!Everyone has their own oppinions!
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