RE: Distributed Conspiracy
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What is right? Is there a universal and objective criterion for determining what is good and what is bad, what is just and what is unjust, what is moral and what is immoral, or is it a relative and subjective question, depending on the context, culture, time, perspective and opinion of each individual and his or her environment?
Many philosophers, religionists, scientists, politicians and artists have tried to answer this question, offering different theories, principles, norms, values and examples of what they consider to be right. However, none of these answers has succeeded in convincing everyone, nor in resolving all the ethical dilemmas that arise in everyday life and history. On the contrary, many times these answers have been in conflict, generating debates, controversies, disagreements that have led to war.
Why is it so difficult to get a clear and holistic view of what is right? Perhaps because it is a complex and multidimensional issue, involving rational, emotional, social, cultural, historical, political, religious and aesthetic aspects. Perhaps because what is right for some may be wrong for others, and what is right in one situation may be wrong in another. Perhaps because what is right today may be wrong tomorrow, and what is right here may be wrong there. It is a distinctly individual→collective⇒culture view.
You are asking the wrong question. You should be asking yourself - what do I believe is right?
Do you think that you know that some things are right and some things are wrong? What are your beliefs and then ask yourself why you believe the way you do?
Again, should you have a holistic understanding of what is right and wrong for you? Probably - yet, I can almost guarantee that there are conflicts in your belief system, because we treat things independently, even if they are interdependent.
Believing you are right, doesn't make you so.
It certainly applies to you, to me..., to everyone.
Yet, how much time do we spend actually trying to work out what is right and wrong for us, and how much time do we surround ourselves with what makes us comfortable?