As I turn 19 and head into my twenties, I can not help but think. How right or wrong were the decisions that I made along the way? What if I had continued playing tennis? What if I had taken up economics? As a matter of fact, how right or wrong are most things anyway? You always see people quarrelling from both sides of any argument anyway. So, I had to read.

Wrong or right, the words instantly reflect onto morals and principles and teachings; but is there an objective, constructed approach to deciding between the two? Right or wrong are like two choices in your life, and the dilemma lies in the fact that it is not scientifically explainable. There is no scientific instrument that measures moral rightness or wrongness. Moral contentions cannot be applied to the scientific rules of proof and repeatability. Situations and scenarios determine whether a said thing is right or wrong. Impact, need and adversity determine whether a said thing is right or wrong.

Go and ask a kid of their first memory of having to choose between right or wrong and they will come up with a situation where they had to choose to be honest or greedy. Everyone remembers the famously asked question on ethics where a train is travelling with its brakes failing, there lie two tracks ahead, one being the intended course with 5 people on the track that are going to be brutally murdered and another having only 1 person to have to be murdered. You have the power to make a decision and you can either let the train continue on its path killing 5 people or take the decision and the authority over the decision, to kill the one person on the other track by changing the course of the train. You think and decide that killing fewer lives is the better option but you realise that you then bear the responsibility of the person's death, and that conundrum leaves you to decide which is the right and the wrong option.

Right or wrong are therefore subject to one's aims, discipline in life and experience. Diversity in brainpower always brings about differences and conflicts of opinion. And therefore people have varied views on right or wrong. You bring in the concepts of morality that are self-perceived decisions and way of living and ethics that are set rules that makeup society as a whole and you get a bit more clarity.

Society throughout evolution has relied on grouping up and taking decisions as one. Anybody that has decided to stay on its ones has not made it so far. Which naturally brings about a commonly perceived sense of agreement to things being either right or wrong. This is known as ethics. Ethics removes the ability to put in opinions. Laws are a set of ethics that have a severe punishment when followed. Using ethics in daily life and making decisions between right and wrong reflects the mature society’s acceptance of their responsibility in life's process.

The ethics and group set code between right and wrong should not stop thinking and questioning but should allow for more rational decisions and discourse. Culture, religion, rationality, feelings, pains and pleasure, interests, rights, character, and relationships are also key factors that help you decide between what is right and wrong.

In the end, I would like to point out that ethics, which is the most common and widely followed suit for decision-making, has four arms. Do no harm, do justice, do charity and respect for autonomy. As long as these four arms are respected when deciding between what is right or wrong and your interests and goals are cared for the decision taken is bound to be fruitful.