Rashomon--Right or Wrong

There are many questions that can be posed when speaking of “right and wrong”: what determines whether one’s actions are “right or wrong,” what exactly “right and wrong” are, and why actions must be judged as either “right or wrong?” All three questions can be answered with the statement that the only universal absolute is that all things are relative. The previous statement may seem to be a paradox, but with closer examination it …

…justification for his actions he did not find anything “wrong” in robbing a old woman, as long as her actions seemed to be worse; and in a sense even made himself feel like a super hero by taking revenge on society’s garbage. Thus, what may be “right” for one may be “wrong” for another, as the opposite is also true, so an absolute basis for judging “right and wrong” does not and cannot exist.