by Sandra Elizabeth

Created on: April 05, 2009

If you asked a hundred different people what's wrong with this world, you'd get a thousand different answers. Each person lives in his or her own world and each has a list of things that are wrong with it. For instance, a married woman might list her husband, while a starving person, their hunger; the lack of clothes in their closet might be on a teenager's list. Britney Spears, if you look at her list you might see "paparazzi" written down whereas the newest American Idol has "no paparazzi" written on theirs. How about marijuana; is smoking that wrong? Ask a pot smoker; then ask their mother.

What's wrong for you, might be right for me. So...is it truly wrong? Something only seems to be wrong, if everybody else thinks so too. Murder is wrong; stealing is wrong and so on... However, serial killers obviously don't believe that. If you posed the question to them, murder would not be on their list, because in their world, it is not wrong. Now of course I'm not saying that murder is right, (in my world) I'm just analogizing to prove a point.

When it comes to righting wrongs, it would seem that majority's opinion definitely rules. (That's why we have prisons and psych wards.) It seems like the more people who agree that the particular wrong in question, is wrong; the more wrong it is and the more punishment it receives. For instance, if your cousin just told the whole world all about your most embarrassing moment, you may have listed it on your "wrong with the world" list; (your world) but you probably won't see much justice for it. You need the majority to agree on the wrong in order for that to happen and you're just one person out of billions.

The question of what's wrong with the world is too just too broad of a question. No single person can answer it, because no single person lives in anybody else's world; they have not walked in their shoes long enough (or at all) to make a judgment either way. With this being such a broad question, even though individuals will be heard; I believe that their lists of the world's wrongs will fall by the wayside and I'm afraid that only the majority's lists of the world's wrongs will be recognized. For example, terrorist attacks are going on, people are losing their jobs, there's too much smog; nobody cares about your stupid cousin's gossip ...except for you.

THAT'S what wrong with the world today. Individuals have seemingly ceased to matter; their wrongs don't seem to count. Well, I'm here to tell you that they do; maybe not to a court of law, maybe not now and maybe not to other living soul here on Earth ever, but they matter to God (swear word)!

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