I believe more so in that there is a right time to do things, and a wrong time to do things. Not so much categorizing the matter at hand as indefinitely wrong or right.
What is right is simply a matter of who gets hurt to most people, no? Right and wrong easily boil down to positive and negative, no? When your thoughts, words, or actions are negative or bring negativity upon those around you or abroad, it is 'wrong'. When your thoughts, words, or actions are positive or bring positivity to those around you or abroad, it is 'right'. Individual actions are not always easy to see as 'right' or 'wrong'. Nor is a complete course of action; however, when you take into consideration the overall consequences of your actions, not just regarding yourself but those around you and abroad, it is much easier to judge the 'rightness' of your thoughts, words, and actions.
actually nothing just happens, but almost nothing does or does not happen just because of any one of us. we are responsible for what we choose to have be important to us. what everyone chooses to have be important to them, the degrees of each thing that they do, combines togather statisticly to create motivations, which in turn motivate people who choose policies, which then, in turn, create conditions. which is where the only real right and wrong comes from, that that is the avoidance of knowingly causing avoidable suffering. of course pre-meditated ignorance with the intent of evading responsibility contributes to that suffering too. i do not believe it is not possible to eliminate suffering, only that no one person can do so alone, and that most people, most of the time, have little or no understanding of how they are contributing to it. telling the difference between contributing and not contributing, to suffering and to the motivations for the conditions that cause suffering, that is the only right from wrong that needs to be told. truly the only right from wrong that there is. it is the study of a lifetime, but also the responsibility of living. =^^= .../\...
Agreed ... One cannot cause others to suffer, but can become the causal factor in others suffering. When one goes about trying to change things outside themselves to make them happy they do so with intention. In doing so one also does things that others become unhappy with, actions, speech. Even if it was not the intention to become the cause for others unhappiness, the intention to change things outside the self to make the self happy was clear. The motivation born of the intent toward greed, ill-will and delusion. Wrong is when motivated out of greed. Wrong is when motivated out of ill-will. Wrong is when motivated out of delusion. Right is when ones actions or speech is not motivated out of greed, ill-will or delusion, rather out of charity (giving), loving-kindness and wisdom. You can even type stuff here knowing that by doing so others will be come unhappy with what you said, therefore becoming the causal factor for their suffering ... the intention was to that end ... the intent was clear ... Action gives birth to action, whether for right or wrong, good or evil. No action has no results. Sometimes good action still produces evil results because of the intention and motivation behind the action. Though the result is not always immediate ... anicca vata sankhara ... all sankharas are impermanent, subject to change, unsatisfactory. One whose action (bodily, speech and mental) is motivated by greed, ill-will and delusion crave and cling to impermanence, change and things that cannot satisfy. HTML:
