Right or wrong

Is there such a thing as good and evil. Ask yourself, aside religion and morality what other basis do you have to determine whether your actions, thoughts, words fall into the categories of good and evil, who's to say we have not been bound by a construct of a genius.

Forget your theology for a sec, ignore your traditional norms, ignore what society has told you, think for a minute. Has there been any norms you have followed and maybe you've doubted. Take for instance, man is riddled by so many laws on so many disciplines, all of which hold true and we hold fast to them, pending the advent of a new law either trumping or supporting the previous law, either way, we require a mind smart enough to prove the precious laws for it's truth, logic and legality.

Say for instance, you propose a law, a prominent law at that, and within your lifetime, someone else comes up and bashes your law as inadequate, what would be your reaction? Would you take the high road or be like the highway men on the low road?. Would you accept a new theory or would discredit this new theory?.

Selfishness or whatever base emotions would most likely take control and the first thought would be to preserve your reputation, no one would want to be disgraced as a quack after providing an essential law and it's about to be proven. You might want say, no you'd take the high road, well it's good to do that but just remember that human emotions are fickle and even the best of us fall sometimes.

Doing a bad thing for the right reasons doesn't make it any better neither does doing a wrong thing for the right reasons.