Learning the Wrong or Right

It is present day culture that people are taught the moral values from a very young age through parents and school curriculum. Though on reading and understanding it sounds straight out of a princess fairy tale and sounds oh so beautiful, but there comes a time where the individual questions the moral understanding and thought as the world is very different.

Wrath, Avarice, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Gluttony: are the well known described 7 deadly sins. Morally all is taught around it on how this needs to be avoided and describing it as a ticket to hell. But every one of us has committed at least one of these sins in our lives intentionally or unintentionally. When intentional of course the individual is in that predicament of whether he should perform the sin or not. It is at this time in human psychology that there is a battle between the individual’s moral consciousness and the mind’s logical thinking. Logical thinking of the mind comes in heavily with intense emotions through the environment the individual grows up in and accordingly interpret it. The environment would be anything from where the individual stays, conversations and its content with other individuals, previous history of events and its memories etc. None the less it is stated that though there has been so much teaching on what is wrong and what is right, should an individual still carry out a wrong act?

Immediate knowledge to the individual regarding the harm and hurt another individual or party would face allows the individual to know he is about to commit a sin or bad deed. It has come to a point in this world that individuals question their moral values as they commit a sin or a bad deed which becomes a necessity for the individual to survive in the world and at times they are just too ignorant. Stealing for the sake of living, lying due to fear of being punished, jealousy of another person as they have more attention that you now, anger on small issues due to the unacceptability of our own incapability are a few examples of sins and bad deeds. But you can see all of these as a right or good deed as well – stealing so that a person can live and prevent himself from dying, lying to save a innocent’s life, jealous of another that they have more than you do which allows you to reflect on yourself and develop, anger which allows and gives you the extra force and determination to achieve things in life.

At the end of the day, we can’t really say that these are sins or not. It depends on how we take these and interpret it and accordingly this would determine if these are bad or good deeds. Individuals need to be explained how the bad needs to be interpreted to utilize it for the good. All in all, people need to understand the reasoning behind the actions of certain people who carry out bad deeds.