For some of us, we’re seeing new horrors happening daily, things like children being taken from their parents’ arms and then being lost in a system that really doesn’t care about their wellbeing. Other people see these events as what needs to be done to protect us from vile people trying to enter the United States and cause us harm. Who’s right?
Does objective truth exist anymore? Is there such a thing as right and wrong? If there is, can we agree on what is a fact or truthful and what isn’t? Can we agree on what is right and what is wrong?
Recently, there was an audio recording where a male voice said a word. Some people heard the word Laurel and other people heard the word Yanny. Whichever word people heard, they swore by their word. In my own household, I heard Yanny while Rhonda heard Laurel. Who was right?
The man who made the recording was interviewed recently. I put the video on my Facebook page. He said Laurel. Unbelievable. I know what I heard. I heard Yanny. He said the reason people heard different words is because we hear upper and lower regions of sound differently. Each group did hear what they said they heard. Both were right in the sense that they did hear different words.
But he did say Laurel. There is one truth, one fact. He said Laurel, not Yanny.
Although people believe that some of what they are doing is right and just, there comes a time of reckoning, a time where it is clear what is really being said and done and that it isn’t right or just. This Laurel/Yanny experiment made me appreciate how differently we can each experience our reality and how important it is to realize these differences as we relate to others.
It also showed me that in some cases, no matter how differently we might see or experience reality, there is one right answer. We can shout Yanny all day long. The man said Laurel. People can say what they are doing is right and just all day long. It isn’t. It simply isn’t.
