What is right or wrong?

[Lonnie]

What is the differnce of right and wrong to you?

What makes something wrong?
What makes something right?

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Using your beliefs of right and wrong, was it right that the nazis killed millions of Jews?

Do you think that the nazis believed they where doing the right thing when they killed the Jews?

 

[Kasey]

1. Righteousness is God's Law - Psalms 119:171-172.
2. Sin is the transgression of that Law - 1 John 3:4

1+2 = Right is keeping GOd's Law and Wrong is breaking it.

 

[billwald]

Right and wrong is determined by the common social contract of the people I live among.

 

[billwald]

Kasey,

please give me a list of God's Law so that I may follow it.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

Kasey,

please give me a list of God's Law so that I may follow it.

Matthew 22:36-40
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Knowing that, next one needs to grow in the knowledge of who God is and what pleases and displeases Him.

 

[Eudaimonist]

"Right" is following principles of a morality proper to your nature, which is done in order to nourish and actualize yourself in a complete and consistent way.

"Wrong" is deviating from what is "right". It leads to self-destruction.

 

[Kasey]

Kasey,

please give me a list of God's Law so that I may follow it.

The "list" is God's Commandments, Statutes and Judgments. They are located in the Law and the Prophets.

 

[Anti-Fear]

Difference between right and wrong can be defined in different ways.
One difference is one is viewed as good by majority of society, another one as bad.
Another is what Bible says right and wrong.
I believe that most moral values accepted as right or wrong share similar values.
Good and right is usually associated by honesty and truthfullness. For example someone's actions may be viewed as bad, but as long as there is no deception about one's intentions it could be justified because it will always come down to moral view and moral views are hard to debate since they're based in metaphysical realm.

 

[ChrisLockhart]

As for here on Earth, I think the difference between right and wrong, is what is the one's heart, and the hearts of those they affect.

 

[Lonnie]

I believe disobeying God's commands is wrong(sinful).
And obeying Gods commands is right.

I think what the nazis did(killing Jews) was wrong.

I think that, nazis thought that they where doing the right thing, by killing Jews.

 

[HouseApe]

I believe disobeying God's commands is wrong(sinful).
And obeying Gods commands is right.

I think what the nazis did(killing Jews) was wrong.

I think that, nazis thought that they where doing the right thing, by killing Jews.

Why do you thing killing Jews was wrong? Why do you think the nazis thought it was the right thing to do?

 

[UNCLEBOB]

What is the differnce of right and wrong to you?

What makes something wrong?
What makes something right?

-------Recently added question below-------

Using your beliefs of right and wrong, was it right that the nazis killed millions of Jews?

Do you think that the nazis believed they where doing the right thing when they killed the Jews?

I lost my way some time ago. Stopped believing in anything. What was right, what was wrong. I relaized there was no ultimate, and that there is only actions, which in the end only mean what you want them to.

I've become more comfortable with that now, but it took me some time to get used to the idea. I spent a year being quite depressed about it.

 

[Seeking...]

What is the differnce of right and wrong to you?

What makes something wrong?
What makes something right?

-------Recently added question below-------

Using your beliefs of right and wrong, was it right that the nazis killed millions of Jews?

Do you think that the nazis believed they where doing the right thing when they killed the Jews?

Right : That which benefits the individual, corporation or society without unjustly limiting the the rights of another individual, corporation or society.

Wrong: That which unjustly limits the rights of any individual, corporation or society.

It was wrong for the nazis to kill the Jews.

I believe some nazis thought they were right. Some bought into the propaganda, some just realized it was a device to unite their country with hopes for Europe and beyond in the future. Some thought it was right just because they were told it was and some people respond almost obsessively to strong authority.

I think some nazis knew they were wrong. They simply didn't accept responsibility for the decisions, the actions. They told themselves that they were just little cogs in a big machine.

I am sure some nazis just didn't give a damn. Not everyone assigns moral value to their actions. There are stories of torture that bear no other explanation. I feel justified in killing an insect that invades my home - I do not feel justified in disecting such insects while alive and under the ray of a burning magnifying glass...the nazis did far worse.

This typically goes for every genocide, most civil wars, and many "just" wars.

 

[EmanResu]

Wrong: That which unjustly limits the rights of any individual, corporation or society.

What about Charlemagne and the teutonic order, who were only able to convert pagan europe to Christianity by using essentially what could be considered terrorism? all Heathens either accepted Christ or had their head cleaved.

Ultimate truth IMO, including write and wrong, is relative to the person or people that share the same conception of that truth.

 

[Eponine]

Right is whatever allows people to live their lives in peace
Wrong is whatever does harm to people, whether directly or indirectly.

By those standards, the Nazis killing Jews was most definitely wrong. And of course they thought they were doing right.

 

[Electric Sceptic]

I believe disobeying God's commands is wrong(sinful).
And obeying Gods commands is right..

If only we could work out just what those commands are...hell, the world's christians, who have been trying for 2,000 years, can't come to agreement on the subject...

 

[Lonnie]

If only we could work out just what those commands are...

The ten commandments are the laws God wrote himself.

Wrong is whatever does harm to people, whether directly or indirectly.

But you see, the Nazis said they where doing it for the greater good, "Survival of the Fittest".

Is survival of the fittest right?

 

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What about Charlemagne and the teutonic order, who were only able to convert pagan europe to Christianity by using essentially what could be considered terrorism? all Heathens either accepted Christ or had their head cleaved.

This doesn't change my answer in the slightest, although I would be interested to know why you think it should...

 

[EmanResu]

I don't think it should change your answer, I just think even within moraly absolute thinking it's hard to distinguish Good and Evil, Right and Wrong. I believe personally it isn't inherent or absolute, but relative.

 

[Electric Sceptic]

The ten commandments are the laws God wrote himself.

As are all the other commands in the OT, yet Christians can't seem to decide which ones are still applicable..."the ten commandments are!" some yell, while others cry "no, we're not bound by the law!' while still others think we are bound by it, but can't seem to work out just what they really mean...