2220925 : incorrect choice?

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Is there something called a wrong choice?

Almost all of us have 20/20 vision in hindsight. Most things feel it could have been done differently in hindsight.

Right and wrong are relative. We can be arguing till the cows come home what is right and wrong. Disagreements will invariably be a case of "what is right for me is wrong for somebody else".

The lens of morals and ethics and such matters are imposed by society and always changing. What is acceptable today would have been unthinkable in another generation!

Then there are situations where one causes harm to someone else - or themselves. It is undoubtedly incorrect . However, from their perspective, that is the next best thing to do for them. If they can think more and consider more things, very likely they will choose different.

But, in that instance, considering what they can consider - can someone make a wrong choice? Not by the lens from anybody else, from their own perspective, can they make a wrong choice?

Can anyone deliberately know everything is stacked incorrect, not from the perspective of anybody else, but from their own, can they choose incorrect just for the heck of it?

Have you come across anything like that...?

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  1. Madhukar26/9/22 05:12

    I think our thought processes never stacked up cleanly. Based on multiple conflicting priorities, we are always battling with multiple conflicting thought process.. for eg.

    I choose to wake up early in the morning and go for a walk.
    When I wake up in the morning the battle starts and whatever I choose is Incorrect from “my other thought process” perspective.
    Anything I choose might be incorrect ONE of my perspective. (Thought process)

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