Something to Think About

What is Wrong with Wrong?

        We hear about sin, we hear about wrong doing, we hear about criminality and all liked terms. Maybe you've even heard of one that I have never heard. Sin is a term used from a moral or religious perspective to define unacceptable states or behaviours. Criminality, on the other hand, just as unacceptable, is defined by established laws, which also encompass moral issues. But why is wrong wrong?

       If I should bite you now, what would happen to you? If I should bite you because I hate you, what would happen to you? If you should bite me back, what would happen to you and I? What would happen to us? Wrong doing/being, sin, crime, all these things hurt other people. It hurts us all; it hurts the people who experience it and it makes the ones who do these things worse. 

Wrong doing and wrong being does not cause peace. It does not encourage patience, or love, or joy. It creates and is a result of negativity; whether of mind or person. It creates a cycle of pain. None of these emotions are good for us. Studies, such as ones discussed by Nadine Jung et al, "How Emotions Affect Logical Reasoning: Evidence From Experiments with Mood-Manipulated Participants, Spiker Phobics, and People with Exam Anxiety," shows some of the effects that negative emotions have on our thinking, self perception, how we react to things around us, even how we make decisions. It highlights research that proves that negative emotions have negative consequences on people; sometimes far reaching consequences.

Wrong doing creates a cycle of negativity; it is a burden to all of us, and it is clear that negativity does not nurture our humanity or any good thing inside us. Therefore, we should avoid anything that causes us to experience, be or do wrong. Whatever you wouldn't like done to you, don't do it to others. The question is, are we capable of preventing ourselves from hurting others all the time? There is no human being I know alive, who can say that they have never unintentionally or intentionally hurt someone. Since this is so, you should ask yourself why.