General Question

Blondesjon's avatar

Can a person really be right or wrong?

Asked by Blondesjon (33997points) January 12th, 2009 from iPhone

If there are no right or wrong answers to questions like, “Is there a God?”, or “Does your bubblegum lose its flavor on the bedstand overnight?”, then why do folks try so hard to make their point? I assume it’s so they are percieved as “right”.

Am I wrong?

Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0

9 Answers

judochop's avatar

YES

Is there a God? Well one will know once dead.
Does your bubblegum lose its flavor on the bedstand overnight? Yes, it does…If you have chewed all the sugar out of it.
Are you wrong? Depends on what you are asking…If there is no right or wrong answer then no you are right and yes you are wrong. Am I making as much sense here as this does to me right now?

delirium's avatar

You are so a P (and not a J) arentcha?

Myers-briggs-wise

Bluefreedom's avatar

I think it would have to be a question that isn’t open to interpretation and for it not to have amibiguous answers for it to be exclusively right or wrong.

An answer that is fact based can be pointed at and labeled right or wrong.

- Airplanes can fly underwater – WRONG
– The earth has only one celestial satellite, the moon – RIGHT

I think people might argue or defend their points or answers so passionately because they enjoy the subject they are talking about and/or they have their own perceptions to what might be right or wrong even if others don’t follow that line of thinking. Opinions can be pretty powerful to some people and not everyone likes to have their points of view scrutinized or debated.

btko's avatar

There is right and wrong.

2 + 2 = 4 (in base 10)

Blondesjon's avatar

@delirium…with a liberal helping of extravert thrown in for good measure.

FYI…you can skew those test results

nocountry2's avatar

Wrong or incorrect? I wish our vernacular adhered more closely to these definitions.

DrasticDreamer's avatar

There may be a right and wrong.

Or… There may not be… :D

I’m a P. An INFP, to be exact. Have been, every time I took the test, which is over a number of years. :P

wundayatta's avatar

I think he is talking about right and wrong with respect to matters either of taste, or where there is no evidence to suggest something is right or wrong.

Well, when there’s no evidence, then anyone could be right or wrong. It is the only area where opinion is the only thing that counts, and where, if you express your opinion cleverly or forecfully enough, you might persuade others to change their minds. If you are successful at getting people to follow your opinion, that can be such a rush! That’s why people try so hard.

As to matters of taste, some people don’t understand that degustibus non disputatem est. Again, if I could show you that eggplant really is good, when you think it totally sucks, then I feel this sense of power. I mean, man am I good!

I think it’s like that on fluther. It’s not so overt; we don’t usually argue right and wrong, but it’s still there: the possibility that we can persuade people to see things differently than they used to. Like now. I’m hoping you’ll find my explanation persuasive, and give me lots of lurve! Especially you new people who haven’t run up against your limit for giving me lurve.

Sigh. Am I a shameless huckster or what!

tomasreichmann's avatar

Being right or wrong is in most cases realtive, depends on the point of view and certain conditions. When it comes to women, however, men are wrong regardless of the above mentioned apects. :-)

Answer this question

Login

or

Join

to answer.

This question is in the General Section. Responses must be helpful and on-topic.

Your answer will be saved while you login or join.

Have a question? Ask Fluther!

What do you know more about?
or
Knowledge Networking @ Fluther