Right

What is righteous? who is righteous? who is not? and who decides that? These questions can only be answered by subjective introspection.What we believe to be good or evil is only our skewered perception of it.It varies with people, their history, and I hate to say it but their race.

Even Osama bin Ladin thought he was doing the right thing by killing thousands of people. How does that work?.How could he possibly convince himself that what his actions were righteous. To his mind, his actions were somehow going to defend Islam from the US. Does that mean he did it out of self defense? Hardly.

The question is how do people define whats right and whats wrong on a personal level. The closest answer that I've ever got to this question is given by GDR in Shantaram.He says that the only way we can say for sure if something is righteous, is to think about what would happen if everybody starts doing it. For eg. if everyone starts donating to the poor, bye bye poverty.Similarly if everyone starts robbing everyone else, bye bye everyone else.

I think there is this broken side in all of us, filled with hatred, misery and sadistic virtues, that makes us evil.Why do you think we cant get rid of corruption.Its because we blame a certain section of the society (politicians).What we do not realize is that the politicians do not drop out of the sky.They live, grow and come out of the same society that we live in.Its not just them, its all of us. We are inherently evil and try to find ways of convincing ourselves otherwise.

We believe what we want to believe.