Gandhi and Hitler

This week, I ended my essay on law asking the reader, "Is pursuing one's individual moral or religious law justified if it comes at the expense of others?" I spent most of my essay looking at sources that said that religious law was supreme, and at the end I brought up this question. However, although I intended the question to be for the reader, I was also asking myself the same question. Sometimes I think that "you should do what is right," but "right" is only a subjective notion. People rarely agree on what is true or right. Furthermore, even if one believes that it is absolutely right to do something, it can easily come at the cost of hurting others. As Mary Stange said, terrorists do what they think is right, just as Gandhi, Hitler, and Martin Luther King Jr. did, too.