I have this very simple Q in my mind for a while now. When I start thinking about it, I get lots of different Answers. hmmmm
and the Q is:
When younger, it is very easy to identify right and wrong and make decisions. (or is it, at least in my case it was) As we grow up and get more and more matured things become blurry. It becomes hard to distinguish between the 2.
Why is it. It should be other way around. With increasing knowledge, the picture should be much more clearer.
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I think the difference between right and wrong is always clear - your gut knows exactly what the right thing to do is at all times. However, with age it becomes increasingly difficult to be able to do one particular thing - we are always weighing the consequences and forever trying to justify our actions. So the choice and the doing part is blurry - not the right thing.
I have this very simple Q in my mind for a while now. When I start thinking about it, I get lots of different Answers. hmmmm
and the Q is:
When younger, it is very easy to identify right and wrong and make decisions. (or is it, at least in my case it was) As we grow up and get more and more matured things become blurry. It becomes hard to distinguish between the 2.
Why is it. It should be other way around. With increasing knowledge, the picture should be much more clearer.
Laffu,
Theoretically speaking, you're right. We have more knowledge...decisions should be much easier, we should be wiser.
I think the reason its not so black and white is because as children...we dont have many temptations aside from candy and TV. As adults...we are surrounded by temptations and sometimes people get so caught up in them...they do everything they can to blur the lines between right and wrong. Its our own doing...we dont want to feel guilty about breaking the rules...so we try to change the rules.
As SU said...deep down in your gut and in the back of your mind...you always know what you SHOULD be doing.
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mujhay bus ik baat yaad araahe hay
aqal na howay tay mojaan ee mojaaN
aqal howay tay sochaan ee SochaaN
ok SU and PS you both are pointing out the temptation part, like u know what is the right thing to do but it becomes hard to act upon because of the stronger temptation for the wrong path/thing.
but my point is bit different, what I am asking is why does it becomes hard to identify the right path. In many cases a person want to do the right thing but ends up doing the other. Like in life forum ppl as Qs and every one replies with what they think is the right thing to do in that situation, if go through all the replies most of them look “the right thing to do” but all of them differ. I think with more knowledge you get more choices and with more choices it becomes harder to choose the best one. OK i m gonna come back with some example shortly.
ditto, :k:
u got exactly what I mean
I have this very simple Q in my mind for a while now. When I start thinking about it, I get lots of different Answers. hmmmm
and the Q is:
When younger, it is very easy to identify right and wrong and make decisions. (or is it, at least in my case it was) As we grow up and get more and more matured things become blurry. It becomes hard to distinguish between the 2.
Why is it. It should be other way around. With increasing knowledge, the picture should be much more clearer.
Laffy it becomes harder because of more responsibilities.When you grow older more responsibities comes to your way and harder it gets.Its not that it hard to choose sometimes it is hard because you run from your responsibilities.
the more you know the less it seems. as we grow up the we realize that we donot know things with complete certainty and thus the more we doubt what we know.
I have this very simple Q in my mind for a while now. When I start thinking about it, I get lots of different Answers. hmmmm
and the Q is:
When younger, it is very easy to identify right and wrong and make decisions. (or is it, at least in my case it was) As we grow up and get more and more matured things become blurry. It becomes hard to distinguish between the 2.
Why is it. It should be other way around. With increasing knowledge, the picture should be much more clearer.
I cant say anything. it might be with you only or you may have some kind of brain problem.. you might be forgetting things that y it seems to be blurry to you..
anyhow i dont know y is it so...
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Ignorance is bliss :)
I have this very simple Q in my mind for a while now. When I start thinking about it, I get lots of different Answers. hmmmm
and the Q is:
When younger, it is very easy to identify right and wrong and make decisions. (or is it, at least in my case it was) As we grow up and get more and more matured things become blurry. It becomes hard to distinguish between the 2.
Why is it. It should be other way around. With increasing knowledge, the picture should be much more clearer.
This reminds me of a famous quote:
The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know. - Socrates
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lol @ question being simple.
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Call me weird, but I think it's quite opposite to that. I think there are not many blacks and whites, but this world is more of shades of gray--you just choose what you think may be the right choice, but looking from a different angle, it might be seen completely wrong, absolutely right or anything in the middle. As kids, you don't know that much, but as you're put more and more in unfamiliar situations and experiences, you learn more and this leads to different opinions and choices.
BUT there are some things that simplify stuff, such as religion if you follow one. However, even in that-there are many things that are left for us to decide and not spelt out. Just my two cents!
Tussi theak akhia…
Yes Laffy…Like they say: ***
The ability to understand a question from all sides meant…
One was “Totally” Unfit for action…
And they also say:
There is no great concurrence between learning and Wisdom!
Makes perfect sense.
Call me weird, but I think it's quite opposite to that. I think there are not many blacks and whites, but this world is more of shades of gray--you just choose what you think may be the right choice, but looking from a different angle, it might be seen completely wrong, absolutely right or anything in the middle.
Since you asked: you are weird! ;-)
I agree entirely that the world has shades of grey. And I think that is what happens with time--one is more likely to see shades of grey and begin to consider each situation in its respective context.
As we grow up, we grasp logic and reasoning. And that's where the boat flutters.
Whereas as child, we believed and we abide. Just like true Muslims...:) Who said seeing is believing...??? I am on the contrary.
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LOL @ Coid_Fire
I see it that way too. When i was young i was helped when i fell, my tutors guided me as i learned so i knew i had back-up. Now my tutors are dead, my elders know little or nothing of use so i am left with no back up. Therefore every decision has to be wieghed up on the scales of balance.
Besides when we get older we are responsible for others too, when we are young we care less about taking risks becuase only we are invloved, but if you add a wife and kids to the mix then things do become more complexed.
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