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Right and Wrong Are Perceptional Constructs
They don’t necessarily mean what you think they mean.
One of society’s most fascinating and terrifying truths is that it has an incessant need for over-simplification. Everything is increasingly shunted to one extreme or the other. The truth, however, is that nearly everything genuinely exists in grey and colored areas between any and all given extremes.
Most people live their lives between black and white, fat and thin, wise and foolish, and every other extreme you can name. Even positivity and negativity have a vast, flexible cylinder of sensations/feelings between them.
Oh, and they themselves are not static. Today’s positive is tomorrow’s negative.
This background is important because there is another conceptual notion akin to positivity and negativity with equal flexibility. Right and wrong.
Right and wrong vary wildly, are often entirely in the eye of the beholder, shift positions, and have a vast cylinder of space for other sensations/feelings between them. They are seldom clear and rigidly defined.
Right and wrong are perceptional constructs that we often give far too much power to. They frequently are used and abused to create artificial divisions that do way too much harm.
