The source of right and wrong
Right and wrong exist only when we all have a predetermined universally accepted cause of action for a specific situation.
For each of those situations, doing what was pre-determined and universally accepted can be considered right. Deviating from that may be considered wrong.
If I ask you for the first few numbers of Pie, all you have to do is vomit what the scientific community had pre-determined.
Same for the speed of light or how many terms the president of your country can stand for re-election.
How about how to show respect for someone older?
Anyone who doesn’t belong to or acknowledge the group we reference can decide not to honour that pre-determined answer and find their own answers.
It was once considered right that the earth was flat. It still is within some groups. People have been shamed and punished for saying the earth rotated round the sun. And many have lost their lives or livelihood to saying things that weren’t aligned with what’s popular.
Often, right and wrong is a result of a group’s taste.
Have you heard people debate what tools is right for a job, casting disdain and shame on anyone who dares a different path? Think programmers and programming languages. Designers and software tools. Lawyers and legal templates. Accountants and accounting practices. Writers and book layouts. Educators and teaching styles. Researchers and citation techniques.
The only time you can get away with driving on the left side of the road is when you drive in places where the group had pre-determined this.
Most laws, rules and rituals are results of the taste of the average member of that group.
Even this sentence is uncorrect because English speakers had pre-decided that we prefer ‘incorrect’ to ‘uncorrect,’ and ‘uncorrectable’ to ‘incorrectable.’
Right and wrong is often about what the group you choose to belong has pre-determined as the answer to each specific situation. Even if it’s a group of 1.
A group favours a way of doing something and makes it a convention. You see that convention and call it best practice.
No best practice is right or wrong. Just group think and taste at work.