Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
Interpretation
Understanding of right and wrong can change over time, influencing our judgments and perspectives.
This quote suggests that while the concepts of right and wrong may remain constant, our understanding and interpretations of them evolve. The experience of enduring hardship or emotional pain can reshape our willingness to make judgments, urging us to adopt a more empathetic perspective towards others and their choices.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about morality, one could illustrate the complexities of judgment using this quote.
I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.
Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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