Meaning of Right: Differentiating Right From Wrong
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What does "right" really mean?
The word right is one associated with ambiguity in the way different persons define it, and is by not easy to tell apart the various meanings it is associated with in common parlance. Owing to the variety of these definitions, adherence to any one necessarily submerges us in ostensible paradoxes when we apply it in the context which insinuates one of the other definitions. This is as a result of precision of language; the paradoxes are however merely verbal, and give rise to verbal objections. (Brentano, 2009). Different persons will see the right thing from the perspectives of their current situation .the right thing can be defined by the past experiences of a situation .the outcome can be used to gauge whether the actual thing was right or wrong .however there are things that are outright right even without prior experience of the same situation but other situations bring out the relativity .a person will see something to be wrong if it directly affects his good life whereas they may see something as right if it does not affect him . A doctor who takes a hike in the woods would see tree logging as wrong whereas a carpenter who depends on timber from the woods would see it as right as it his source of livelihood.in a business situation the right thing should drive the business towards profitability as well as scale up.( Pojman & Fieser,2011)
How do you know when something is truly right or wrong?
The best way to know if something is right or wrong can be seen from the consequences of the action whether moral or ethical. The consequences of something right should be acceptable to the society whereas the wrong thing brings in the consequences that are not generally acceptable in the environment it is performed in. the only disadvantage of this distinction is that we have to wait for the consequence however there is a natural instinct that tells us if something is good or not even before we attempt to do it. The more we perform such things then a cross section of data is stored in our intuition and we can refer to these experiences to distinguish if a thing is right or wrong (West, 2008) .
Reference
Brentano, F. (2009). The Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong (Routledge Revivals). Routledge.

West, H. (Ed.). (2008). The Blackwell guide to Mill's utilitarianism. John Wiley & Sons.

Pojman, L., & Fieser, J. (2011). Cengage Advantage Books: Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong. Cengage Learning.