The question of right and wrong

Do you really know the difference between right from wrong? The courts of the United States say we know right from wrong at the age of seven. We, as a resident of this country, state that by the time we are in the second grade we can determine that we are separate from others, and can distinguish the difference between a right act and a wrong act. Do we not judge our own children by this criterion? The ability to distinguish him/herself from his peers and siblings and from his parents is one of the basic things we look for as we determine appropriate and inappropriate behavioral patterns. Before this time there may have been some confusion on “what is mine” from what may not be his/hers. Now at the age of seven we know the meaning of right from wrong.

If we lived in a truly black and white world, a concrete physical place where the laws of physics and life are well established and never fluctuated then the answer would be a definitive yes and no discussion would be warranted. But we live in a chaotic world that is in flux, new laws of Quantum Physics being discovered almost daily and the norm is ever changing. In the world we live in, the blurring of our established tenets are fogging up at the very least and challenged daily at the other end of the spectrum.

When we, as humans, move into a more abstract state of thought and recreation the dogma of the traditional mores of our society are in a flux. A transition to include the data overload of our communication age needs to happen as our concrete way of looking at the world becomes obsolete as a rusty tool that gets left alone the garage of our inner mind. Living, as we do in this state requires the examination of our tools, a oiling of the rust and a sharpening of our thought patterns to bring about a working, growing, unlimited look at the question of right or wrong.
As human beings do we know what we are capable of? Would there be a situation where knowing “right from wrong” were we would choose the wrong? If threatened enough could we be capable of harming or killing another human being even though we “know” that would be wrong? Is there a cause, such as our American way of life ,where we would put down our own lives for? Is there a time when we would steal, to provide for our families needs? Is there a time and a place for dishonesty?

As a Spiritual being, we need to look at what the inner most part of our being wants us to deliver to the world as a Whole. The answer to this question has been stated over and over in various forms, but at it’s essence it is LOVE. You can ask how I can demonstrate LOVE and this may indeed be a further discussion by this author. But your inner Self knows it’s expression and it is time for the outer body to demonstrate it

A right and wrong that is flexible? It is an interesting concept, and one I must say we have implied with our life. It is also something to explore in our inner-selves as we explore what makes us unique human beings while being a part of the Whole of life.