what is your basis for saying an action is right or wrong

that holds that the moral rightness or wrongness of an action should be ascertained in terms of the action's consequences. According to one common formulation, an action is right if it would promote a greater amount of happiness for a greater number of people than would any other action performable

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Faulieego Faulieego · Answer 2

You have to start with some basis which is simply a personal preference. Do you like surviving? Then you should probably be aligned with continuation itself which naturally leads to life itself and all the principles and behaviors it exhibits.

Then from there you can begin to see principles of harmony that come into play that are necessary for life itself. Then you refine those to fit humanity in particular and then specifically yourself. In each case the refinements and exceptions must consider the greater parent causes.

Right and wrong are always a trade off of long term and short term and those two are a feedback loop which leaves them in a slightly tangled hierarchy.

The decision process is always intrinsically flawed based upon faulty information of the individual and poor sample sizes. Therefore constant refinement of right and wrong must be part of the process.

Basically, right and wrong are measures of efficacy. This begs the question of "Efficacy for what?" which our instinctual morals answer with "For a primate in a group of roughly 25 individuals of hunter-gatherers!" but we have the right and moral obligation to override the "right and wrong" imperatives which have not had the time to adjust, in evolutionary terms to the new situation we live in.