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 Moral judgements are harder to deduce, compared to proving scientific theories.

Believing something to be right or wrong is different from believing it to be good

or bad.

 When we assess them from the moral point of view, it can sometimes become

intricate. We can classify them as morally right or wrong. However, we can likewise
judge them morally good or bad. Doing something you believe is right can also be
morally good or bad.
 If a person spends money to help innocent civilians in a war–torn country, her

motivation tends to make her action morally good. But if she spends the money
only because she regards it as a lucrative investment, her action may be prudent
but it would not be morally praiseworthy.
In some cases, determining right from wrong is simple and straightforward. If we are asking
the question because it's uncertain, then there is complexity in the situation (Lin, 2016). With
that being said, in my opinion, if a person thinks that something is morally right for him, then it
is pretty straightforward that it is morally right. But there are also circumstances when a person
is debating in his thoughts if something is morally right for him then it means that there are
thoughts in his mind that it might not be morally right.

Additionally, debating whether or not a particular thought or action is morally right or wrong
could be pointless because morality cannot be tested by science nor can be measured by any
scientific instrument (Matteson & Metivier, 2017). With this in mind, a person could make or do
something morally right by simply believing it to be right
 Different countries all around the world have certain laws their citizens should
comply to, but not all countries share that same rule. This is because each country
has different beliefs from one another. For example, practicing the death penalty as
a means of punishment for offenders who have committed heinous crimes can be
accepted by a country because they believe that it is morally right and it serves as
a solution for ending crimes in their vicinity. On the other hand, it can be criticized
by another country because they believe that taking away one’s life is not a
deterrent for heinous crimes.
 Adolf Hitler’s ideology. He believed that no non-Germans should have any say in
Germany. He did not believe that Jews could be Germans. Hitler believed that
communism was a huge threat to Germany and should be destroyed. He thought
that communism was a Jewish invention and that was another reason why he hated
the Jews. Later on, he resorted to military force to enforce his ideology, in which he
strongly believed in.
 CrashCourse (2016, October 25). Metaethics: Crash course philosophy
#32 Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoffXFpAlU
 Matteson, M., & 2017, C. M. (2017). Business ethics. Retrieved February 2017, from
https://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-1-what-is-ethics/what-
makes-things-right-or-wrong/
 Retrieved February 2017, from http://https://www.quora.com/Ethics-What-does-it-
mean-to-be-morally-right-Or-morally-wrong

 What makes actions morally good. (2005, January 1). Retrieved February 2017, from
http://www2.units.it/etica/2005_1/SPIELTHENNER.htm
Believing in something means that a person has conviction and
accepts a thought or idea even without evidence. It is the result of a
person’s experiences and knowledge about a certain topic and is
deeply etched in a person’s mind. Though both of them influences how
a person sees the world around them. When two people have different
beliefs about something they are looking at then it follows that they
perceive it differently.
When we draw the number six (6) and make two persons stand on the north and the
south part of the number, the person in the north part of the number thinks that the
number written was nine (9) but the other would state that the number was six (6).
Neither of them was necessarily right or wrong but because they perceive it
differently their beliefs contradicts, though it doesn’t follow that they perceive
different things. From the example above, even if a person sees it from the north or
the south; the number remains a number. It doesn’t morph into something else but
because it was seen differently, one might think that they are different; which they
are not.
Person A believes on having a good grade in school will make you rich, while person
B says that you don’t need a good grade to become rich. The reason person A
believe on having a good grade will make him rich is because, he can have a good
and stable job, while person B believes that having a strategy in life will make him
rich even though he doesn’t have a good grade in school. As you see these two
people has a different belief on how they will become rich, even though person A
and person B perceive things differently, they could still be rich if they have a strong
will to be. These two persons share different beliefs and views but we can’t say that
one is right while the other is wrong.
This could be a great example, say we eat a jalapeno pepper. It’s hot every time.
Once we register the association of jalapeno with spicy, now whenever we see a
jalapeno pepper, we will avoid it if we dislike spicy food. That’s a simple harmless
example. When we believe we see a jalapeno, we also must already believe we know
what a jalapeno looks like. We must also already believe we can see that what we see
is what is there in front of us, that food is to be eaten along with vegetables, and so
on. The moment we see a jalapeno, all of these things we believe associated with our
view register automatically. If they hadn’t, we wouldn’t see anything
 Could you give an example of how beliefs affect perception? Retrieved February
2017, from https://www.quora.com/Could-you-give-an-example-of-how-beliefs-
affect-perception
 CrashCourse (2014, March 17). Perceiving is believing - crash course psychology
#7 Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46umYA_4dM
 Hasan. (2016, November 2). Difference between perception and belief Retrieved
from http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-perception-and-vs-
belief/
 TED (2016, August 8). Why you think you’re right -- even if you’re wrong | Julia
Galef Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RLfVxTGH4