Right and wrong.

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What's right and what's wrong and how do you decide what path to choose.
As human kind is progressing and in some ways regressing it really makes me think about this topic a lot.

Last summer I was making report on some practical application of machine learning from my paper and I did make a report on those A.I based cars and at that time my teacher asked me what if at some point the car has to chose a path to avoid on accident to save a human life but on the other side there's also another human standing.

who do we save? what life is more important? Is a criminal worth less than a doctor?

is a parent worth less than a child?

Is killing people a wrong thing to do?

but don't we kill each other in wars anyway?

if I will kill someone on a battle field I will be declared a hero but otherwise I am a murderer.

I found this interesting article on quora about the same thing {note that these are the views of some other person and I also agree to some parts and not to some others}:

There is nothing right and there is nothing wrong, there is nothing good and there is nothing evil.

Morality is a human invention and is applicable only to humans. It is a guided set of rules aimed at making humans more civilised. Just because humans have objectively classified things into right and wrong doesn’t necessarily mean that these classifications actually exist in nature.

These guidelines, and thus the perception of right and wrong keep on changing with time as the opinions of the majority of humans change. There is a statement delivered by Brad Pitt in the movie, 12 Monkeys, "There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion." Once there was a popular opinion was that Earth was flat and that notion was considered "right". Then, there were times when the sun revolving the Earth was a common opinion, and the ones opposing that, were considered crazy. While cannibalism, public torture, and blood fights were widely accepted in many societies in the past, these are now considered heinous acts. Until recently, or even today, homosexuality and atheism were/are considered wrong. Today, marijuana and prostitution are illegal(in most parts of the world). Who knows, tomorrow the "popular opinion" changes and what is considered wrong today would be considered right tomorrow.

Humans are subjected to cultural conditioning. Children often throw their food, scream, and blatantly talk to others before they are conditioned to the “right” and “wrong”. After the stage when children start to develop the ability to process conditioning, throughout their lives, morality is continuously shoved into them through parents, teachers, society, religion, and education. This conditioning, in one way, is essential to keep humans within the bounds. But this means that morality is something which is taught to humans since childhood, and not something which is inherently present in them.

Morality is to humans what geographical coordinate system is to world geography.

Now, maybe you are thinking that murder, rapé, and violence are outright “wrong”. I would ask you to have a good look at nature. Animals often kill each other over territory or for mates. We don’t call it wrong, we call it the “survival of the fittest”. There have been instances of rapé among animals, many times when it doesn’t even seem to be one, and yet it seems perfectly natural. Animals often don’t allow members of different clans in their group. This is what we call “racial discrimination” today. Nature often strikes with earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes, which we would call “violence”. If murder, rapé, racism, violence are “wrong”, shouldn’t that “wrong” be applicable to all the species and nature as well. If humans didn’t exist, would morality hold any significance at all? As humans grew intelligent, they invented morality to keep themselves civilised, and as humans grew arrogant, they started believing that morality is a universal thing.

So, what're your thoughts on it?

try not to break tou or get this locked by an unrelated debate

 

what's right and what's wrong?

 

Was too long when scenarios and contexts were given.

 

'answers',I laughed.

 

:lol:

 

You can just see the panda in rain and stay happy.