On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 21:00:10 +0300 Georgios <gpd...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Personally > Right or wrong are highly subjective. Besides that right or wrong > always has to do with your goal. What accomplish your goal is right. > for example. > Want to be good a math? > Well the right thing to do is study after school. > > > Socially > You could say that every society based on its values finds something > that is considered right by the majority. > for example. > Slavery i bet 99% of us would agree that is wrong and would criticize > it. Slavery was accepted as right a couple hundred years ago. > And punitive levels of taxation are accepted today. > By the way the last example probably answer to Heinlein.(based on > today values) > > ps.Just felt that I had to answer that quote. Dont really like what it > implies. Of course it could be out of context. > There is no context, it was a standalone aphorism. > On 6/23/19 1:26 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > > "Does history record any case in which the majority was right?" > > > > R A Heinlein > > OK, an exaggeration, but a general comment that the mob is almost always misinformed, often deliberately. -- Joe