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| Message From: Raman Bharadwaj |
Total Posts: 33 |
Rank: Beginner |
| Post Date: 27/07/2006 12:06:12 |
Points: 210 |
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“Right vs. Wrong” - “Right vs. Right”
by Raman Bharadwaj
Values are Universal and Eternal -
Truths do not change with time and calendar
Through generations, some values have crystallized as eternal and universal which gives us our clear do’s and don’ts . Today, the concept is slightly different..
While on the one-side, it seems, “Everything is OK. What’s right for you needn’t be right for me, and conversely, what is wrong for you needn’t be wrong for me,” there is another side I’m looking at, “The choice between Right and Right, and the Wrong and Wrong.”
I’d certainly have a difficulty in the choice between the “right and the right” but in the choice between “wrong and wrong,” I might not care making a choice.
If values are and keep changing from one person to another and from one situation to another, then they aren’t values at all. Science and Mathematics have theories to prove the right and the wrong, but in the commercial world and day-to-day life, we often looking for guiding lights much like the ships look at the “light-houses” in the night and the “mariner’s compass” for direction.
Why then should we not have bench-marks for values?
Whatever we do in our professional and personal life we need to have clear-cut benchmarks, and how is it that we are going to get them?
Keep thinking while you read this story..
A frail old lady with two bags of groceries in her hand, was waiting for the bus. Right behind her was a hulk of a boy, also waiting for the bus. The bus came. They both got into it. It was packed. There was only one vacant seat at the far end of the bus and the old lady was moving towards it. The boy came from behind, threw his big arms around the lady, took one big step, and then another to reach the seat. The frail old lady fell on the floor of the bus and her groceries fell scattered all over. The passengers looked at with shock.
“How clumsy is this boy?” shouted on of the ladies talking about the boy’s etiquette and manners.
Another was a lawyer, who shouted, There must be a law to punish such offenders who behave poorly.” He cast his expertise the legal aspect.
A surgeon also on the bus reacted, “The poor lady must have broken at least three ribs.” He was looking at her from the medical angle.
A fourth one on the bus was a psychiatrist who wonder if this boy was psychotic and needed mental help.
Like this each of the four were reacting to the incident from different view points each of which had a bearing to their professional background - ie. Social etiquette, legal, medical and psychological.
Not one of them raised any question on whether the behavior of the boy was “right or wrong.”
Why don’t we ask ourselves this question. The moment we do we become “judgmental.”
So what if we are termed that way. Why should we shirk being judgmental? If our value system is clear, what is the harm in being judgmental?
In order to establish universal benchmark for values we need to consider the following questions.
One : Should the boy like that with the lady?
Two: Should anyone behave like this with anyone at all?
If your answer to both these questions is “No” - be assured you’ve found for yourself a universal benchmark, and believe that you can apply the same principle in all aspects of life.
In order to live a worthwhile life we need to differentiate between the “Right vs Wrong” and the "Right vs. Right.”
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