What Is The Right Thing To Do

what is the right thing to do?

Thanks for the A2A! :) this answer is based on my own ethical philosophy.Ethically, the right thing would be to the greater good of yourself, others and humanity. Whenever you do something, ask yourself, 'is what I'm doing good for me, my friends, my family, my community, my nation or my species?' If all are yes, go ahead. If not, then you might want to weigh between the effects it might bring upon all these factors, and choose between the two of lesser evils (the less negatively impactful choice between the decision considered 'bad'; the not-so-good decision). If still in doubt, always compare your action to all of humanity, and you will realise, everything bad you do, no matter how small and insignificant, will affect humanity in all sorts of many ways.Still in doubt? Eg. Suppose that you stole. The owner of the store will become discriminatory. He may convince other shop owners to be discriminatory. The whole shopping mall becomes discriminatory. The news breaks out about your theft, and nationwide discrimination follows. Soon, those who steal and have common traits with you from your country or from other countries will become 'associated' with you in phenomenal ways, and now there will be global discrimination. After even more cases pop up, the world will then link you with all the poor people who stole because they needed food, or even all poor people. The world then announces that 'All poor people are thieves and must be condemned.' Your decision has now caused others to suffer, even if they didn't steal. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Yes, every discrimination definitely would have a root cause, just that it's too diluted by time to figure it out.

How do you know what the right thing to do is?

Right thing, a tricky question to answer because right thing is subjective it changes from person to person but still there are times in our lives when the most difficult things are right thing and we do it just because they are right.Let me enumerate the factors that give a clear idea that what we are doing is right.You will always have “ Peace of mind”, right thing always yield positive energy that will help you restore your strength even in adverse circumstances,You will feel “fearless”, no matter whether people are against you, verbally slam you,backbiting about you these things will not deviate you,it may cause stress but always remember that greatest lessons are learnt the hardest way.You will “never regret” your decisions or conversations if it was the right thing to be discussed or told.You will have deaf ears to how and what people talk about you because its common that when you are right you often get rivals, and they work together to shatter you, thats the time when you sheild your esteem by being deaf to badmouthing that goes around about you.Thus whenever you feel the adrenaline rush or an intense mood to decide what is right or wrong may be above points will be of help, its what I treasured through life experience. A skill to define “right”.

What are the right & wrong things to do in life?

There is nothing as absolute right or wrong in life my friend. That is the main problem. (Even calling problem a problem may be wrong for some who prefer to call it a challenge.)A thing would be right in a given situation at a given time in certain place, but would be wrong in other circumstances.The understanding of what is right, when, where and in which circumstances is called VIVEKA.Let me explain.Let us take example of killing. Killing an enemy is right in war. Killing a friend is wrong. But if the same friend turns traitor ?Let us take another example. Lying to comfort and give hope to a critical patient is right but for cheating another for personal benefit is wrong.You take any moral code, it is right in certain circumstances and wrong in others.Let us take stealing; of heart is OK, but of any dead asset is not.An infant kicks mother, should he do it when grown up?Now let us come to the real problem (challenge). How to learn VIVEKA?Arjuna had the same problem. He was confused and did not want to fight the war. Krishna then clears all his doubts. That is Bhagvad Gita. In the last but one verse of Gita, Krishna says, “Arjuana, I have cleared all your doubts. Now do as you wish.” To which Arjuna replies, “ Yes, Bhagavan. I will do as you have told.”The point here is the ultimate judge as to what is right and wrong is the person himself. I or anyone else can only tell some stories.I hope this helps in your quest.Thanks for A to A Anirudh Chowbey.

Is doing the right thing always a good thing?

No it’s not, but that is because you are constrained by a set of rules that you find to be ethical and moral when you do the ‘right thing’.Other people around you that are not doing the ‘right thing’ are not restricted by such ethics and will in these circumstances always win in the short term. That’s because they see the chance to do the wrong thing as a type of gamble and if it’s worth it they will take it.This is why crime pays, as does stabbing colleagues in the back to get a promotion or sleeping with someone’s wife etc.The list of unethical and immoral behaviour is endless and a permanent part of the human condition, but immoral behaviour always pays a dividend in the short term otherwise people wouldn’t do it.Whilst it is satisfying to see these ‘bad people’ upended when they lose occasionally lose at the ‘right thing/wrong thing’ game such as the cheater beaten up by an angry husband or the petty thief that is unexpectedly caught by their boss or the office sociopath that is revealed to be the cause of the company’s problems (and not Jim form accounting as previously thought) and sacked, this doesn’t happen very often which is why it’s a gamble that’s worth taking for these types of people that get a rush out of doing the wrong thing.It takes great self discipline to do the right thing and avoid these temptations, which is why the rewards of being good are largely spiritual or mental, i.e. the peace of mind you get when you don’t have to look over your shoulder to see who is coming for you next.

Is it always better to do the right thing than the kind thing?

I am not sure what you mean by this. I find that it some cases it is better to keep you conscious happy so sometimes people might say contradictory things at school and such, but if everyone thinks you are doing good and you know something is wrong than it is often better to go against everyone...especially if it pertains to peer pressure/bullying. Sometimes commands can be misleading--not that most people have complete control to commands. I'll give you an extreme example--there was a boy in North Korea in the camps (who eventually escaped), but who was taught that if someone goes against camp rules, you turn them in, which often means death for the one turned in. The boy believed it was his duty to follow the rules so, when, one time his parents disobeyed the rules, the boy turned in his parents, but later felt bad and realized it was not really the right or good thing to do. He still carries the guilt with him today that he killed his parents. The line between what is right and good is often confusing for most people as society often tells us that what is "good" is also "right", but I believe that you mean that what is "good" to do is what is "good according to what others believe you ought to do/what the rules say". The right thing, however, differs. For instance, we have always been taught not to lie, but in certain instances lying is the "right" thing to do as it might save someone's life, etc.