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Which is more important, to do right or to do good?
A rich man walks down the street and drop a 20 dollar bill. You know he will not even notice it is gone. On the side of the street sits a beggar who looks really hungry. The good thing is to give the money to the beggar, the right thing is to give it back to the man who dropped it.
- Maybe instead of taking this question , as a question of right and wrong or judgment, perhaps what we can take from this is that there are a variety of opinions and many people have different ideas of what is morally right. That is beautiful to me. This is just an example that good and right are almost undefinable, or at the least the definition is always changing for everyone.
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Kate Blake 50+
I used to challenge people with the story of the lady who accidently left the hand brake off when parking her car on a step hill. What penalty should she incur? Then add different scenarios like her car side swiped 4 others; or it ran over a young mother and killed her baby in the pram or just slide gently into the gutter and did no harm.
Sadly we are mere mortals without the power to see the bigger picture of every action we do and don't do. So choosing right over good is merely our personal perective and neither right or wrong ....
Don Anderson 20+