Who is Right?

[Mr. Dictator]

Iv'e noticed quite a few heated arguments lately on CFC and ive decided to ask a simple question: Who decides whose opinion is right and who is wrong? Is it logic, a religion, or is it your personal experiences (abortion being ok for rape and incest but not accidents), or even something else?

just curious

 

[GenMarshall]

No one is truely right when it comes to heated debates and argument. What is right for one person might be irrational or wrong for another.

Its just different points of views.

 

[CaptainF]

I don't know what is right.

Chances are you don't either.

Maybe somewhere lies all the answers, but until then, life is more exciting because of a lack of all the answers.

 

[El_Machinae]

By default, I'm pretty well always right. If I agree with you, you were right. If you can get me to agree with you, when I wasn't sure before, then you were right the whole time.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

dawgphood you are a kindred soul, my opinion exactly

life is about being spontanious and living for now

imagine a world where everyone followed the same religion

 

[blackheart]

imagine a world where everyone followed the same religion

I have and that world went down the drain as soon as two people started talking about their religion.

 

[Zwelgje]

Something can only be right when it's definately not left.
The above may not make too much sense but you know I'm right.

 

[The 777 Hoax]

I saw a shirt the other day that said "To save time, let's just assume that I'm always right."

People have different points of view on things. All three of the choices can all factor into someone being right.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Something can only be right when it's definately not left.
The above may not make too much sense but you know I'm right.

spoken like a true philosopher

expound on that thesis in a 6 page paper and have it on my desk by friday

 

[YNCS]

While one can be right or wrong concerning facts, there is no such thing as a correct opinion.

If I say that the Battle of Jutland was fought May 31-June 1, 1916, then I'm either right or wrong. If I say that the Germans won a marginal tactical victory and the British won a strategic victory, that's an opinion. Other people can have different opinions.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

well of course i meant opinions but ill clear up my first post

 

[Quentin]

The side that is right is the side that more people agree with, or that simply makes more noise. That is my opinion, though I'm probably not right.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

but peoples ideas can change, a majority of people in germany supported hitler (forget godwins law for a moment) but does that make his actions right?

 

[Perfection]

Our current opnion on any matter is the opinion that we view best reperesents our core values. Experience (the gaining of facts), and logic (the processing of facts) can shape our opinion without disrupting the core values by modifying our view of what is the best representitve given available data.

Religion IMHO, is just a logical mistep, albiet a very persistant and powerful one.

In the end logic and experience can only go so far, the core values can't be changed.

So if we allow for the same core values, logic and experience are the only way to go. For increasingly different core values, the ability for logic and experience to change another's view is decreasingly effective and the rightness of either party is less and less able to be argued.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Whoever is disagreeing with MobBoss is usually right

 

[ComradeDavo]

I would say ultimutely you personally decided what is right or wrong. Everyone has difference of opinion when it comes to it, so go by what you think deep down. Obviously there are some universal 'right or wrongs' which everyone agrees on.

 

[warpus]

There is no such thing as an ultimate right or ultimate wrong - there is only relativeness and personal opinion.

However, not all opinions are created equal

 

[azzaman333]

Who is Right?

Me, and dont you forget it!

 

[Elrohir]

What I say is right. Period.

Nah, seriously, being right doesn't depend on what anyone says, it's on being factually accurate. That's all there is to it. There are just differing opinions on what that means.

 

[silver 2039]

There is no such thing as right or wrong. These are social human constructs based on a number of factors you listed including logic, religon, expierence, rasining etc....

Everything is relative there is nothing or no one who can determine absoloute right or wrong.