Now I come from the school of thinking which believes that everything in this world can be justified. If it has been done, it can be justified. Otherwise, why was it done at the first place. The greatest misery in this world is that different people look at the same thing with different perceptions. Also these perceptions vary with time. Right and wrong can never be absolute. In fact, if you find anything in this world to be absolute, please enlighten me.
When Men started living in society, certain acts came to be regarded as Right for the ease of large. These lumps of righteous acts later became morality and morality gave birth to obligations. This is how pillars of society came into existence. To protect the interests of the general, freedom of all was curbed to some or more extent. Those who did not abide were termed as outlaws and extirpated from society in general. The justice system adopted later in the civilized world, heavily borrowed from these general accepted norms of a society. Hence ‘Right’ was defined. This was necessary for the smooth functioning of the society. Right was often the child of our interests. What worked out for us, we called it Right and what didn’t, wrong. Now people started having rigid notion of Right. The notion that everything can be justified from both the ends and Right may not be Right for all became blurred. Right became absolute and proper and seldom prone to arguments and debates. The reason in wrong got overshadowed by the might of Right.
So does this notion of Right work? Yes, most of the time, at societal hierarchy at least. Contrary to popular perception, we are not free people. We started living in society to protect our properties and we often pay the price for the same. So the trade-off is working well. The problem becomes perceivable at personal level. Misunderstandings between individuals are often due to rigid notion of Right.
We mold this Right more or less all the time for our good. Morality, which differs at cultural hierarchies, does its best to complicate things. So we dislike certain kinds of people who do certain kinds of acts. We become biased and prejudiced. At higher hierarchical levels, this makes us racists. If we understand the fact that Right is not something which is absolute but which is defaced, raped, forged and shaped as per the needs of individual and society, by religion and culture and in modern times by media and politics, may be this will help us understand the miseries of this world and the people we live with, in a more profound manner.
