10 Biggest Questions in Life

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8. What is right and wrong?

You’d think that all of us have similar ideas of what’s right and wrong about a lot of things. Like all of us probably unanimously agree that murder, theft, violence, fighting etc., are wrong. But when you really think about it, the circumstances of each act calls into question whether it is justified or not. Hence our base notions of right and wrong are vastly different. A really interesting study in morality is the Euthypro Dilemma, which questions whether morality is absolute.

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