Prompt: Right or wrong?
To come to a decision of right or wrong, how do you know if you are using the right process to arrive at your decision? If I decide that I think it is right for Joe to kill Bill because he borrowed his pencil and it ran out of lead while Bill had the pencil, does that mean that I have made the right decision. I believe that I would consider myself a moral relativist because I do not believe that there is an exact right or an exact wrong that can be judged by a man's eye. I believe that although there should be an exact right or wrong, with no gray matter in between, this is not how things work in the world today. There are many processes that one can follow to find a right or wrong, and I have found one that I believe suits me very well.
For an example, let's say that I am currently performing jury duty. The defendent is a middle aged woman who ran over her husband and killed him, and is using the defense that he abused her. First, I would decide whether I would have reacted, pretending that she is telling the truth and he did abuse her, in the same way, and done the same thing. But, if I would have done the same thing, what makes this right? Why is it that killing someone who abused you is ok, but killing random people on the street is not.
Right and wrong are never truly absolute, and can not be decided in a moment. I believe that God gave us the power of free will and the power to think so that we would be able to process the information of the world today, and decide what is truly right or wrong. I also believe that he put in position people who could make the laws and consequences of breaking the laws, so that we as a group of people know the outline of right and wrong.
Although I do find myself to be a relativist, I also believe that I could be an absolutionist because I do believe that there are certain things that do have a definite right and a definite wrong. However, I see that as long as there are human emotions involved, there will always be "gray matter."
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pass this was a very intresting essay and had examples to back up why she thought what she did.
Pass: I liked the examples that you used, they were very interesting. You used information to back up why you thought you were a moral relativist.
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