Sunday, August 10, 2014

Good and Bad

More often than not we take the burden of all the wrongs that are happening in the world without moving a single stone which is an obstacle we crib about. We spearhead as being the champions of the human cause while we fail to understand even the basic humanity. 

Why this hypocrisy to prove that we care when we really don't ? There is no point in adding fuel to an already burning world but sadly we do.  

What Hobbes said that "Man is essentially evil and gets civilized by the society". But what do you tell those people who are evil and decivilize others to become an Evil too. 

Hobbes: 
Human Nature = Bad , Civilization = Good


For those Rousseau says that "Man is essentially good and it is the civilization which makes him an evil".

Rousseau:
Human Nature = Good, Civilization = Bad

So, when we say that Civilization is progressing when essentially it is not, whom are we trying to bluff? Ourselves !

In the new world order the talks about good things have increased. We think that we have become civilized and better people but the gross morality has declined. 

While there can be claims that in the new world order there is no slavery, more rights to individuals and women, and life is much easier than it was earlier. So, this should essentially confirm the proposition that Civilization is good. 

But when we see the disorder, new emerging problems which are essentially the brainchild of the humans and possess a threat to the world itself, we can say that Civilization is bad. The example can be the global harming, harm to the environment in the last 100 years being more than the last 10,000 years. 

Can we not say that this progress is essentially the cause of turmoil and the human who was essentially less harmful has now become a demon which destroys not only its own species but other species too.

The balance is somewhere in between where every good by an individual must be shared and get the respect and we all must feel proud about it. At the same time, when there is a wrong by someone, we must denounce the wrongs and try to reform the person out of it. 

Simply blaming and cribbing about the wrongs will only highlight it more than the good things. Good things are less shared while bad things are the most shared ones. It is here the individual goodness into picture. As an individual we have the responsibility to share the goods in the society

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