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Showing posts with label Morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morality. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Morality


What a coincidence? What hypocrisy? Are we going to teach the morals of Kapil Sibal and P.Chidambaram beating innocent unprotected sleeping women and children to death the post independence Jallian walla bagh? What is moral and what values? How are they going to determine it?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101199648/Morality-is-Just-Contextual
On morality I read a research book by Dennis Krebs, The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account but then it was as usual too much of dry academic theory, concepts churning based on previous similar works. Then I made an assessment based on  certain studies that I had already made out of the works of some  great souls and found that yes indeed morality is purely situational and contextual  irrespective of all the religious and social edict to the contrary.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

TABOOS AND TRENDS

Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | Video on TED.com
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Good one. In fact I remember reading a book some 30 years back by A.E.M. JOAD titled "That There is no such thing as Morality" and along with that BERTRAND RUSSEL'S "IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS" and when I wrote my book of slogans and sayings the first thing was "Nothing is a Taboo.

What is a taboo in one place at a particular time may be trend in some other place and at the same place some other time and what is a trend at one place at a particular time may be taboo in some other place and at the same place some other time.

We waste lot of our time and energy and life itself debating and declaring what is right and wrong.

ALWAYS, sorry even this expression is wrong, what is 'always' when life itself is temporary.

Too often we judge people and events based on our preconceived notions of right and wrong when they are purely relative.