2009년 3월 3일 화요일

Sense of direction

What is right?
What is wrong?

Is what most people think of as right, the actual right thing for everyone?

Isn't it every individual actor who comprehends his/her situation the most,
and knows what is right and wrong for himself or herself in a certain situation?

Isn't it that one has no right to judge someone else's action as right or wrong since one cannot know what influence another has received or is receiving?

Or is a certain action condemnable regardless of the causes leading to it?

Whatever the causes are that led to a certain result, they are the causes that led to that result,
so can it not be said that those causes can be labeled good or bad depending on the nature of the result?

Or is that also untrue since a result is never just a result, since results become causes of other results, continuing on until the end of time...

The fortunate incident becomes the cause of a harmful accident which becomes the trigger for the happening of a beneficial event and so on; as in the tale of the old man's horse who ran away and came back with another horse and the old man's son fell off the new horse, wounded his leg and was spared from military service?

But who knows where we are going?