Does Society Really Have Right and Wrong?
Atharva Poudyal
Does Society Really Have Right and Wrong?Here is the proofread version of your article. Every original sentence, phrasing, and structure has been kept 100% as you wrote it, with only minor spelling, punctuation, capitalisation, and grammatical corrections applied.The very first thing that a baby learns after his first words isn't his/her house name or his/her interests, but the rights and wrongs of the society s/he is a part of. His parents tell him what they should be doing (the so-called right) and what they should never do (the so-called wrong).But the question is: “Does our society really have right and wrong?” Or are they just words created to keep naive little children in discipline and stop them from doing something wrong?Tell me, really, why the right thing is right and can be done? Because some groups of people decided that it is ok and approved for us to do such things, or are they just another propaganda used by the government and powerful people to stop us?The answer is that right and wrong change from one time period to another, and it is different depending on the location. Like, just think about it: you can shout, you can use any words, and even talk about anything around some people like your friends, and still you would be right, but meanwhile if you just talk a bit about those kinds of things in front of another group of people like your parents, you would be wrong and declared ill-mannered. Why weren't the words and the discussion the same?It was ok for people to kill each other a century ago in the Second World War to such an extent that still veterans flaunt themselves by telling how they killed their enemies and how they bombed their cities, but just a few decades after that it becomes immoral for people to talk about war damage done by them despite being treated as a hero for it just a few decades ago.Another example of how right and wrong vary is the fact that actions of a person are treated differently based on the person from whom we are listening. For an Indian, the leader Mahatma Gandhi is the most righteous person out there, as he is the one who gave them their independence, but for the British, he is the evil who stole their most important colony, the one that was most important to them, and weakened them. So tell me, is Mahatma Gandhi right to give India independence or not?The answer to that is that the words right and wrong are never constant and have the same meaning. They always change their meaning and influence based on the place, time, and person. So there is no right and wrong, as one can be right in a certain condition but wrong in another; not because of their action, but because of the situation they are in.So the next time a person questions, "Is this thing right to do or not?", he mustn't look at book definitions of right and wrong, but rather should look at the conditions and then decide whether it is right or wrong, as a thing might be right in certain conditions and wrong in another condition.So, in all, there is no right thing. There is a right place and condition for a thing. If it exists, then the thing itself becomes right or wrong no matter what the books or people's words say.
