Definition Essay On Right And Wrong

Morality, the word itself has a rather loose definition. This word brings up questions about ourselves that most people tend to avoid, it attributes this to the reminders of right and wrong. When the truth is, that there is no “right” and there is no “wrong”. There is only what we perceive as so, there is only the choices we make, there is only the things that we live with each and everyday. What seems right to one person, is wrong to another. What makes those things right and wrong are dependent on the very things that make us human. To kill another man? This is wrong. But to kill a spider? This is right. This is the very narrow view of a person, most don't see that regardless of what dies it's still sad. It's still loss of life. Even that statement …show more content…
People always say, “Nothing is ever black or white. But rather everything falls into a gray.” Morality is that “black or white”, it is those inner truths every person has that make things good or bad. The right of a person eating a beef hamburger to satisfy him/herself is a crime to another and his/her religion. Even down to the basic decisions we make every single day, “What clothes to wear?”, “Should I eat this or that?”, “Should I listen to this song or the other?”even things like, “Should I brush my teeth today?”, “Should I even go outside?” and “Should I get out of bed today?”. Almost everything involves moral thinking, because everything is based on what we think of as correct vs what we think is a bad idea. The blatant opposite of this being, immorality. To be immoral one must do something that is against their own beliefs for morality, they must do something that they themselves know to be bad or the wrong choice; like to knowingly eat craw fish when they know their allergic. Morality being the large topic it is, has a large amount of media about it. My personal favorite of that media is the movie “Saving Private Ryan”. The concept