​If spirituality helps us make better choices, who decides which choices are better?

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so if you talk about better choices who decides what are better choices actually there are certainly areas where there can be shades of grey what is better, what is worse what happens is the shades of grey they have to be carefully dealt with nobody can come and impose their dogma and say this is right and that is wrong but from absolute moral dictatorship moral dictatorship this is right, this is wrong from that, we don’t want that definitely in society but that does not mean that we have to go to the other extreme of absolute moral relativity nothing is right and nothing is wrong that will lead to chaos so even we accept whatever it is that child abuse is wrong there are many things which we intuitively understand is wrong the specific way of evaluating what is right and what is wrong that may vary but you all accept the principle that some things are right, some things are wrong and the specific we can deal with but the broad principle is in simple things like if I have a limited amount of money and I splurge and I incur a big debt that’s not good I am hurting myself if I have family dependent on me and at that time I can’t deal with my problems and I become alcoholic I am increasing my problems and increasing their problems so there are quite often areas where the better and the worse choices are not all that difficult to discern and to a large extent a person becoming an alcoholic addict or a drug addict who is going to consider that to be good and most often, let’s put it this way there are people who become alcoholics and they don’t want to be alcoholics so are there means by which we can help them to break free from that spirituality I found is one powerful way I am not saying it is the only way but it is one powerful way so it can help people who have got caught because of the wrong choices or unhealthy choices to break free and make healthier choices and so those who are good they can even become better, they can become more focused so for example, whatever we want to do in our life if I can concentrate better I can perform better, I can contribute better so enhanced concentration skills are a plus whatever field I am working in and if something can help me to become more focused become less distracted, it is a positive so specific areas of moral ambiguity those questions can be dealt with separately but here what we are talking about is in a general sense there are certain choices which are more or less universally understood to be bad and still people are not able to resist them and if you could help people in that way then that is empowering them internally and spirituality does that thank you, thoughtful questions