Do you prefer using good, bad, right and wrong or functional and dysfunctional?

[caring__1]

Good, bad, right and wrong are used to push one's agenda onto others. The goal is to mold them into what makes sense to us, thereby minimizing what makes sense to the other and implying their feelings are irrelevant. Functional and dysfunctional merely state whether a choice is taking us toward our objective or not. Which do you use the most when dealing with others, and for what reasons?

[TheSpaceGnome]

Functional and dysfunctional are too vague to use in most situations regarding living beings, because things that are alive do not have a purposeful function, they are not intended to be operated, let alone in any sort of specific way.

Good, bad, right and wrong are supposed to opinion based. Trying to make them objective is futile.

What it really is, is a matter of person A's opnions versus person Bs opinions.

However, more intelligent people tend to both be more compassionate and more thoughtful of the opinions of others, and more wary of dangers, so while its opinion based, some opinions are safer than others or more compatible with others.

At the end its all about self preservation, and the preservation of things you personally find to be important/enjoyable, based on your opinions.

Obviously people will disagree on many of these things, but facts exist on how to preserve one's self or other things in order to stabalize that, so whats actually best, is to point out the objectively true consequences to actions.

[caring__1]

Good, bad, right and wrong are often presented as universal truths to be applied to all, whereas functional and dysfunctional are unique to the individual. It can be functional or dysfunctional for someone without it being functional or dysfunctional for all. Asking someone whether a choice was functional for them will often trigger deeper thought within that individual, whereas the other words tend to put people on the defensive... as they feel judged.

[TheSpaceGnome]

There is no such thing as universal good or bad.

When you eat food, its bad for the animal or plant, but good for you.

A universal good or bad would require that nature somehow shifted to a universal utopia with zero competition or heterotrophy. From a physics perspective however, thats not possible.

[caring__1]

You know there's no such thing as universal good or bad, and I know it, but people still use these words to push their agenda onto others.

[TheSpaceGnome]

That they do, but because they all have a different idea of whats good or bad, it should be obvious to everyone that its not universal.

[Grovermint]

I never use functional or dysfunctional in these situations. I merely present my point of view. It is ultimately the other person's choice to accept or reject it.

“Pushing your Agenda” is to strongly promote the things you want to get done.

Inherently, it's not bad in and of itself. If I bring up my favorite place to eat when it's still up for debate, I'm not forcing them to go or manipulating them.

To tell someone your moral view isn't pushing your agenda. I'm not forcing them to change what I consider horrible life choices, such as making a commitment and later deciding to cheat on their partner.

[WhitneySnow]

I never really thought about this. I guess good and bad, right and wrong but I usually (though not always) view things through a progressive lens.

[caring__1]

Good, bad, right and wrong tend to be most common, so we copy what we observe. I just asked this to make people aware that copying what is common won't necessarily take us where we want to go.

[WhitneySnow]

Interesting. Thanks.

[caring__1]

You're welcome.

[NewgodOmega]

The world dont give a shit about good bad right wrong coz everyone has their own set of things that they belive is right wrong good bad so everyone is free to do what they like or want regardless of it being good bad right wrong in someone elses view

[caring__1]

I have no problem with people doing what makes sense to them. My issue is with those who feel entitled to push their agenda onto others, manipulating others with these words.

[NewgodOmega]

No one can manipulate anyone just with words. If the agenda pushers are powerful says the one who make the policy then they can force everyone to do things the way they like
Like the fucking so called justice system

[caring__1]

Read this book to see how we are manipulated with words. We only know what we experience. If everyone says the sky is blue, we'll believe the sky is blue. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/296662

[genericname85]

actually good can become bad, cause these are very subjective statements. not everyone likes the same. all the other dichotomies you offered seem less subjective to me, except maybe right and wrong can be a little subjective depending on the context.

[stepyo99]

You're just pushing an agenda of moral relativism.