I AM RIGHT! 

I decided that the mechanism of being Right deserved more discussion.

It appears to me that human beings are addicted to being right.

And for some of us that is not enough.  We must also make YOU WRONG!!!

And these addictions are so insidious and powerful that we frequently don't even notice that we are engaging in this behavior.  We will "be right" or make others "wrong" and not even realize at a conscious level that this is what we are up to.  We swim around in our "rightness" like fish swim in water, oblivious to our context, just as fish are to theirs.

And people will sometimes fight other people to be right.  Fight verbally, or even physically.  Actually, sometimes people will KILL others to be right.  Even fight wars to be right!!!!

Some people refer to the conflicts between Arabs and Jews, or between Sunni and Shia, as a "Holy War. " There is nothing "Holy" about those wars, or any other war for that matter.  Its just a whole bunch of people being "Right!"

A man who I respect a great deal once said, "I have a choice.  I can be Right, or I can have Relationships.