Tag: rightandwrong
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Recent Event – Uvalde
I was interested in weighing in on world events when I first started this blog, but I also wanted to get my base thoughts out their first to provide some understanding of my perspective. But I feel the Uvalde event helps illustrate my thoughts on right & wrong. Let’s preface this discussion with the understanding…
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Morality
After some further thought on meanings and the comments from Right & Wrong, I feel a sense of additional clarification is warranted. Rights and wrongs are an interesting concept and have a lot of levels to them, kind of like love. Love has multiple levels and doesn’t mean the same when spoken to a spouse…
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Meaning
My most discussed blog is Right & Wrong. It seems this one generates a lot of consideration as it may go against our conventions about right and wrong and the meaning of right and wrong. When we say right, do we mean the direction? Something good? Principles of freedom or entitlement? These definitions are all…
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Conscience
Shout out to my dad on this one. After reading some of the prior blogs, my dad emailed me some thoughts. In Right & Wrong, we talked about if you are never told what is right or wrong, can something be wrong. My dad argues ignorance is no excuse. This is a tough one for…
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Duality
I push my fingers into my eyes. Oh wait… let’s start again. The world is full of opposition. Democrats, Republicans. Good, bad. Up, Down. Day, night. Right, wrong. Light and dark. These opposites need each other as they define each other. Darkness is the absence of light. Now what if half of a duality ceased…
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Responsibility
In the last discussion about Right & Wrong, we ended on the idea of responsibility being the limiting factor to behavior in a world without universal right & wrong. After some more thought, I’m not sold on the idea. I think the only thing that limits us is ourselves. Responsibility seems to be a type…