RE: Do You Care About Being Right? Why It's Good to Be Right
Right. Wrong.
One of those slippery beasts, because sometimes there is "right" and there is "wrong" and sometimes there's just "right for YOU" and "wrong for YOU." As in peanuts might the the "right" snack for you, but the "wrong" snack for me if I'm deadly allergic to peanuts... while in a global context, peanuts merely "exist."
Don't get me wrong-- I know what you're getting at here. It's just that the majority of the world tend to confuse opinion with moral/ethical considerations of right and wrong.
Yes, I care about being "right" in the sense that I believe in "do no harm," for example. I believe that "right" exists as something that's above and beyond my own personal opinions, foibles and prejudices... and sometimes that even leads me to do things I "don't like" because I also recognize the upper layer of "rightness" that carries more importance/weight than my biases....
Yup, there is a difference between a preference or opinion, and an action that produces active right/good towards others and not the opposite of active harm/wrong towards others. There's also what's always right/correct/best/optimal given certain variables and a desired goal/outcome. In many situations people can tell what the right thing to do is given they have enough information about it, moral or not.
The words right, truth and good can apply in many different way and contexts hehe. "Good" taste like processed sugar doesn't mean it's really good for you. Thanks for the feedback.