RK.md » right http://rk.md -- welcome to the life of a tech-savvy medical student -- Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:02:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Is There Always A Right Answer? http://rk.md/2009/right-answer/ http://rk.md/2009/right-answer/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:10:29 +0000 Rishi http://rk.md/?p=842 As a science student, the majority of my studies have involved learning “facts” about biological systems, mechanics, etc. These facts differ in subject and complexity, but the underlying similarity they all share is the ability to be proven. By the same token, a vast amount of conjectures have been presented to the scientific community by ambitious researchers. Extensive case studies must be done to validate or reject a theory before it can be accepted as a “fact”; however, can the aforementioned process be applied to all questions in life?

Does everything have a “right” answer?

Fortunately, there are only two choices: yes or no. Personally, I’ll lean towards the more difficult side and venture to say yes… everything has a right answer. We just may not know what it is. For ethical issues (ie, is it “right” for people to have abortions)… well… that depends on the individual party. We all have our conception of “right” in heated arguments. But are these personal ideas of right and wrong technically correct? Of course not. But this doesn’t eliminate the existence of right. Yeah, I’m playing devil’s advocate. :-)

What do you think about this?

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