Right’s &
Wrongs are the favorite words of many in life! Many look at things in life and
set a standard judgement of wrongs and rights based on only their very own
perspective and then they tend to demand others to oblige to their sets of
rights and wrongs! Now if you understand the statement well, do you think is it
right?
Who sets what is
right & what is wrong anyway? Any guesses?
Well it is the society, culture
and our very own values actually, these factors in general sets a rule of
rights and wrongs which we tend to incorporate as our very own standards or
code of conducts, for instance;
Malaysian’s generally don’t like tapping a
person’s head to greet them but it may be a way of greeting somewhere else thus
can we say it is wrong to tap a person’s head? Yes of course as long as we are
in Malaysia,
Secondly It may be wrong for you to place your slippers right at
the centre of the entrance of a house in an Indian home due to their respect
for the deity’s picture at the entrance but is it wrong to do in a Malay
culture? No…
Now your parents
may have taught you that it is wrong to have leftovers in your plate after a
meal and an obedient you have been following it ever since being so can you say
leaving leftover is wrong to any other person? No…
That’s just an
example of standards of rights & wrong set by the Society, Culture &
also values of a family, being so, if you tend to think about it, there can be
nothing prudent as wrong and right, what can be done is that a general
perception can be set as “an action unacceptable by a large group of
individuals with a concrete reason to it is something wrong” and vice versa.
Being so many
today has the attitude of judging another person’s actions as wrong based on
their personal standards of right and wrong. It is an act of unfairness as the
other person’s act would have been right to himself based on his personal
standards of right & wrongs. It is not fair to judge him with a narrowed
context of right or wrong of a third party….
The lesson to
learn is that before judging on others we should have a neutral mind-set free
from our very own standards of rights and wrongs and obliged to a wider
perspective of it at a general context in prior to acting on another person’s
action or else we would tend to judge with bias or it may be an act of
hypocrisy whereas we ourselves may tend to make the very same wrongs.
Suren
