Monday, May 29, 2017

Right and Wrong in absolute and relative terms

The statue of lady justice, called by one group and the statue of Greek goddess Themis, called by other group have stirred up the nation of both aisles. No amount of explanation or justification would bring both groups to agree on it. This is true that this statue is used as the symbol of justice around the world and this is also a undeniably truth that this is the statue of a Greek goddess. "Lady justice" group isn't concerned about this single statue but is worried to accept the demand to remove it as they think that this would be marked as the beginning of the end of openness in our country. The "goddess Themis" group isn't concerned that keeping this would destroy the religion in the country but worried that allowing it will create a new acceptance to spread the liberals agenda in all swath of our life.

Who is right and who is wrong.

Both groups are right in one stance and wrong in the other. You can't install anything at anywhere without appreciating the feelings of mass people and similarly you can't remove everything from everywhere because we aren't aware of them whatsoever. Do all of us know that we use so many names of Greek goddess without even recognizing them? Do we know that some name of calendar months, the symbols of most of the medical college and hospitals, etc. bear the symbol of Greek mythological god or goddess? If we dig more, we will find more and more influences of other cultures and religions in our day to day life. 

Is that all right or all wrong? Right and wrong comes with two flavors: absolute and relative. How about forming our principles of life based on absolute right and absolute wrong however, taking our daily actions based on relatively right and relatively wrong. To judge others, can't we use the relative sense of right and wrong and use absolute right and wrong while judging our own souls

There will be plurality of faith, plurality of believe, and plurality of everything in our life. Hoping that all of a sudden we would start believing in one God, practicing one religion, and following one culture are absolutely a pipe dream. We know that never happened in the entire history of human race. And no one can claim that this would happen until the end of the human race. So, why can't we just learn to live with each other, side by side?

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