Who is right, you, or the world? ..suppose..?

Question

there is a possibility that the way you think/ act is correct, and the rest of the world is wrong...I admit this sounds psychotic, but humor me..anyone ever had that feeling?

Answer 1

ummm i guess i might have had that kind of situation. but when its you against the world, it's a little tough. depending on how strongly you feel that you are right.

Answer 2

It is called becoming educated. If you get educated in a certain area, your specialization will likely make you more correct about your beliefs pertaining to that area than the average person would be. In so far as average people have beliefs about your specialty which conflict with your own beliefs, you will likely be correct and most of the rest of the world will likely be wrong.

When your specialty isn't in an area where non-specialists have strong opiniosn, this won't be frustrating, but try being an economist, philosopher, political scientist, sociologist, psychologist, or historian (not to mention biologist or climate scientist!). The majority of people have VERY strong opinions about topics in these fields and the majority of these people will also have no clue what they are talking about.

Answer 3

You [anyone, oneself] is correct, because we are self-centered.The world is made up of self-centered people, so how can that many people be correct?

Answer 4

If you are acting against the rest of the world, you are probably wrong.  After all, there is probably a reason they think/act that way.  Not to say that human beings can't be ingrained with thought processes that are false or faulty, but we have had thousands of years to correct them.

It seems like what you are trying to ask is whether or not morality is subjective or objective.  It will always be objective.  Remove any religious doctrines, any law, any person, and essentially anything you can remove from a situation and there is still right and wrong.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Answer 5

yes, my philisophy (logic) professor said that he once read (tohugh he cant remeber where) that if there is just one person who does something differently from the others, then that one person is correct, and all the other people are doing it the wrong way.

sorry, i'll try to ask him where he got that. but i probably wont succeed in that. :))

Answer 6

It's an egocentric problem left over from when we were children.  It may be common, but it's neither healthy nor intellectually excusable.  You get over it by understanding mental states of both yourself and others.

Answer 7

Yes. I have had that feeling, the feeling that makes you want to scream, even though you know you are still helpless. Learn to accept that sometimes, you ARE right, but no one in the world will listen. Take quiet comfort in the fact.

Answer 8

Yes, it is the nature of human beings.

We are only humans.

Answer 9

The fact that you think and act that way obviously means you believe it is correct. That's perfectly normal.

However, that fact that your thoughts and actions are not shared by even  a single other human being is a bit disturbing.

Answer 10

i thought i was right but no its me whose wrong, wrong to give the world a chance to affect my selfworth and selfesteem leaving behind more frustrations of life for me.

Answer 11

Personally, I do not think that I or the world is right.

I think that whatever IT is, has to be right, by virtue of being right.

Right is right, otherwise IT looses it true meaning!