The Right From The Wrong

I like to think a lot. I think about society, I think about people, I think about norms, I think about cultures, I think about stories, I think about the good and the bad. I think about the right and the wrong. I think about sanity and insanity. I think about life and death. I think about opinions. I think about the way things are done. I think about what we are. I think about our life, our emotions, our thoughts, deaths, birth. I also imagine. I try to imagine stories that haven’t been imagined. I try to conjure ideas that haven’t been put into reality. And I think about a lot more. But in all I think, one question always arises. What separates the right from the wrong?What are right and wrong but mere ideas of how one is supposed to be, that have been agreed upon by a number of people?

Think about it. You were born in a country governed by laws. You were taught, from a very young age, that if you do something that goes against these laws you’ll be punished. Your mind, which was like clay, was molded into what was considered the proper shape to be molded into. The peopke who raised you, assisted and ensured that this happened and in most of the cases succeeded too. In general, our ideas of right and wrong are what the society has told us they are supposed to be.

Or so we think. Diving deeper, we find that it is only on a very broad view that we all have the same ideals in common. As we go into the specifics, the ways of life, norms of the society, ideas of right and wrong rapidly start to differ and conflict. So the question arises, what make the ideals that we share and agree with i.e. the commons that we find when we look at humanity from, as stated earlier, a very broad spectrum, the right ideals. We are taught that one must be peaceful, and forgiving and kind. Why? Why should we be so? Why should we not be merciless, cruel and unforgiving? The answer would be simple. Because being unforgiving, cruel and merciless would be destructive. Because that would cause problems ranging from mental health issues right to war and bloodshed. These problems, are something that nobody wants. Or is it? What if one enjoys bloodshed, war and murder.Or enjoys inflicting mental torture on others. What then? Is that person wrong? Of course. That person is a god-darned psychopath! Or is he? Our ideas of mental illness are defined by what does not align to the usual, the ordinary. But are these ideas right? Are we right to classify a person as sick and wrong just because he/she is different? Aren’t we then doing what we ourselves consider wrong in the more specific views of the society i.e. trying to change someone or treating someone as different, inferior or in any other negative manner ,just because he/she is different. So just what justifies our attempts to change the mental state of a person and consider it curing that person? The answer could be that we have the right to do so because that person would be harmful to those and that around him, and therefore has to be corrected. But who are we to take in our hands, to eliminate what we consider harmful, as long as it doesn’t affect us on a personal level. But then, who is that person to be someone who affects our lives, say for example, a lover of war and bloodshed to act such that it affects us? What empowers that person with that right?

These questions lead us to a very interesting conclusion. That there is nothing that is right, and there is nothing that is wrong. Our morality is nothing more than a human invention. All there is our survival instinct paired with a superior grey-matter. Makes you question things, doesn’t it?

These questions are where things get fluid and ever-changing as now, you these questions will lead you to your very own definitions of what is wrong and what is right. Sit down, contemplate, think, question, analyze, don’t blindly accept what the society says or wants you to believe. Use your mind to arrive at the correct conclusion. If you have doubts over the conclusions you or your mind may stumble upon, then there is a solution for that too. And that solution TO CULTIVATE YOUR MIND. READ BOOKS, WATCH DOCUMENTARIES, RESEARCH OVER REAL-LIFE INSTANCES, RESEARCH ON THE MINDSETS OF CRIMINALS AND THEIR MOTIVES. DON’T BLINDLY FOLLOW THE HERD AND TWIST YOUR BELIEFS FOR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.

Here is a list of books and documentaries to help you cultivate, feed and expand your mind to horizons you may have never known before:

1.BEING WRONG BY KATHRYN SCHLUZ
2.RIGHT AND WRONG: HOW TO DECIDE FOR YOURSLEF BY HUGH MACKAY
3.INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND BY STANTON E.SAMENOW
4.CONVERSATION WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES
5.KILLER: A JOURNAL OF MURDER BY THOMAS E GADDIS