How To Be Comfortable With Moral Ambiguity
Accept that you don’t have to have all the answers.
I want to start being more at peace with moral ambiguities. In this day and age, it’s hard, especially because not everything is ambiguous. I have seen my fair share of plagiarism that is directly plagiarized by the author — that is not ambiguous.
And yet I can’t help but feel like there are a lot of moral ambiguities in the world that I personally don’t treat as ambiguities.
Ambiguity is not the sexiest term out there. It implies that there can be multiple valid truths to any given situation and that you have to examine that truth before you can make a valid interpretation.
For example, I’ve been around multiple conflicts between friends that end up as very contentious endeavors. Everyone wants to take sides — but the more I learn, the more I realize that both people have validity behind their claims and their experiences.
How can both people be right? We are conditioned to believe that there are a right and wrong, but reality is much more complicated than that.
People have their own perceptions and experiences, often of the same event. In psychology, the Rashomon effect is an effect where four people who witness a murder have drastically different witness…
