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It is a dangerous to propose that we each have a choice on what is right and wrong

Jul 19, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I would like to refer to Ms. Stacy Cheong’s assertion in her letter in the Guyana Times of Sunday, 12th July, in which she states that “There are as many morals as there are people in the world, since morality is a reflection of culture, education, social development and other particularities of a people”.
If we should accept this, then it means that everyone has a right to determine for himself what is right or wrong.  Would this not obviously lead to chaos in any society, as everyone would make different judgements on what is fundamentally right?
Maybe Ms. Cheong is muddling morality with the code of ethics that is formulated by any group to govern the nature of their interaction, but this also will have as its foundation the sense of right and wrong that morality determines through the use of the conscience that all human beings are born with, and which is developed through conscious choices.
I would like to posit that it is a dangerous thing to propose to immature minds that we each have a choice on what is right and wrong, as then we each would have the right the reject what even the authorities who govern us would include in the laws that rule our actions in our society.
It must be accepted that our birthright of conscience has instilled us with the ability to judge right from wrong, and we have been further endowed with a free will to develop this according to the basic acceptable values that we need to employ to apply these to our environment.
May we all understand this basic principle and use it to develop a morally good society.
Roy Paul

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