How do we determine what's right or wrong? How do we determine what’s good from evil? Good decisions made by good people can help prevail against the bad decisions. In the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle the characters are forced into situations where they must be able to conceive what is good from evil to interpret how to move on throughout their journey. Well, there are multitudinous ways that everyone thinks of to distinguish these two major categories, but the biggest influences that people use to consider their right from wrongs are the people around them, science, government, laws, and past experiences. In my opinion the uttermost biggest factors in incorporating what’s good from bad, what's right from wrong, are my parents,
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They give me hard truths on the subject that can lead me to an ultimate conclusion on the matter. The first way that facts and statistics help me decide what's good from bad is by supporting me with a key database. For example, if im wondering if skydiving is too dangerous to do, I could just figure out that there's a 0.0007% chance of dying while skydiving where alas there is a 0.0167% chance of dying while driving. Another reason why I use facts to help me decide on tough decisions is because with the right resources online you can get almost 100% reliable data which is a lot better to confer with than a person who might be biased on the subject or incorrectly staten. The final rationality behind me including facts and statistics in my decision making from what's right and what wrong is that, when used in arguments the facts will either back up my point, or disagree with my point making it easier to figure out my decision. For example, if my friend was saying that poachers aren't that bad because there are enough of every animal, and I was saying that poachers actually impact the environment greatly. I could then say (after looking at a reliable reference that includes a mathematical fact) that he is being extraordinarily dumb because animals such as elephants have been on a drastic drop in numbers because of poachers killing them for their ivory. In fact, in a study from 2002-2011
They give me hard truths on the subject that can lead me to an ultimate conclusion on the matter. The first way that facts and statistics help me decide what's good from bad is by supporting me with a key database. For example, if im wondering if skydiving is too dangerous to do, I could just figure out that there's a 0.0007% chance of dying while skydiving where alas there is a 0.0167% chance of dying while driving. Another reason why I use facts to help me decide on tough decisions is because with the right resources online you can get almost 100% reliable data which is a lot better to confer with than a person who might be biased on the subject or incorrectly staten. The final rationality behind me including facts and statistics in my decision making from what's right and what wrong is that, when used in arguments the facts will either back up my point, or disagree with my point making it easier to figure out my decision. For example, if my friend was saying that poachers aren't that bad because there are enough of every animal, and I was saying that poachers actually impact the environment greatly. I could then say (after looking at a reliable reference that includes a mathematical fact) that he is being extraordinarily dumb because animals such as elephants have been on a drastic drop in numbers because of poachers killing them for their ivory. In fact, in a study from 2002-2011