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RE: How do we know that what we do is RIGHT or WRONG?
Ultimately, there is no such thing as right or wrong. These are relative terms to describe our feeling about an idea. Example: Abortion. Is it right? Is it wrong? It just depends on how you feel about it.
Morality is nothing more than rules that a society makes in order to able to exist as a group. These relative terms have nothing to do with right and wrong, but with the approval or disapproval of the masses.
Thank you for your post, wonderful subject.
Hey @stonedave76 Immanuel Kant would disagree with you. The 'categorical imperative' acts on all people at all times. Something is innate within us, maybe again just for survival, which is whispering what is good, to treat others as ends themselves and not as means to an end, and so on..
Every one is entitled to their own opinion. Where I do agree with some of Immanuel's ideas, I see that we are born animals, and given the chance to grow up without the morality our parents taught us, we would act as animals. We are programed from birth the rules of society. Without this teaching, we would consider an act such as murder neither right or wrong.
Consider: is it wrong for a tiger to steal food. nope
Is it wrong for a tiger to kill his mate. nope
Is it wrong for the tiger to kill his young. nope
We are animals, we just live in a society that has to have rules to keep it organized. This can be proven by the fact that in the wild west, people stood out in the road and killed each other with guns, and at that time, in that society, there was nothing wrong with that. People killed other people and they thought nothing of it. Now if you do it, its murder, and people believe it is wrong. The only thing that has changed are the rules society has put on you. We don't kill because we know its wrong, it is because we are told that it is wrong.
Great points @stonedave! I agree with you 100%. What is 'right' or 'wrong' is based on your own personal perspective of the term.