What's better?

[Sign Related]

Is it better to do wrong or the unethical knowing you're wrong or being unethical? Or is it better to do wrong or the unethical not knowing that's what you're doing?

[Nefaereti]

It's the knowledge that something is unethical or "wrong" that makes it "wrong." Not knowing what you're doing is "wrong" is ignorance, but knowing it's wrong and doing it anyway is disfunction.

Of course...that leads to the question of what is "wrong"...Is it something defined by society or defined by the individual? Is it universal or is it personal?

[honeyfugle]

i agree.
it is like the idea of sin in that if you dont know that what you are doing is wrong, then it cant be a sin. its only when you know you are doing something wrong it becomes sinful.

so to answer, its much worse to do a wrong/unethical action that you know physically is wrong yet do it anyway.

[snake_grass]

Is it better to do wrong or the unethical knowing you're wrong or being unethical? Or is it better to do wrong or the unethical not knowing that's what you're doing?

could you do something based on if you no the definition of it?

i mean how whould you know what you are doing if you dont know what the definition of what you are doing is?

Edit: i dont know

if i didnt know what toast meant how whould i know that i am eating toast?

[djulian]

It is neither better nor worse. All you must be able to contend with are consequences that our culture has laid forth throughout the generations - how pitiful it all is.