Comment by No on The Meaning of Right · 2008-07-29T04:58:05.000Z · LW · GW

2+2=4 no matter who's measuring. Right, for myself and my family, and right, for you and yours, may not always be the same.

If the child on the tracks were a bully who had been torturing my own child (which actions I had previously been powerless to prevent by any acceptable means afforded by my society, and assuming I had exhausted all reasonable alternatives), it might very well feel right to let the bully be annihilated by the locomotive.

Right is reducible as an aggregation of sympathetic conditioning; affection for a person, attachment to conceptualization or expected or desired course of events, and so on.