Dilemma of Being Ethical

 

Dilemma of Being Ethical

Have you ever been in a situation in your life where you feel like giving up on your moral standards or code of conduct that you live your life on? Did you ever felt that acting virtuously all the time has no significant imperative? Or dealing with circumstances where your plausible mind tells you that its to your best interest if you deviate from your ethical considerations? If you answer Yes to any of the above questions, then I want you to know that its perfectly normal and I should argue even justifiable to think on that account. Really? Yes, but the implications of these decisions might be sometimes fatal.

Fatal in terms of physiological, mental & psychological functioning of your body. You might be wondering: What else could be fatal in losing moral convictions other than just having dysfunctional trust in relationships which is the glue that binds them together? Well, there’s another aspect to that which is much more deeper than just trust of others. It’s more about losing trust in yourself. It has been evident by many studies that people who had strong convictions about their moral code of conduct had a lot more self-esteem and a sense of significance than those who tried to defy their conscience on a regular basis.

Part of which I am advocating is from my own personal experience & mostly from the experiences of people that I have read about or listened to. Even a decent or harmless act may seem insignificant at first, but when you fail to listen to your conscience and take the decision against it, then it’s the beginning of all the psychological trauma that ends up in community sin. And most people fail to understand or comprehend (rightly) this simple ideological fact that they don’t live with a group or any Individual, but they live with their conscience.

An important observation that I have had in my rather short life is that when you live right with alignment in your conscience, you have a good memory. Because when you think that you can defy your conscience, you can get away with it. But it’s a fabrication put on by people who have failed to do so and intend to force it on you to justify and dignify their course of action. Because your conscience always advocates for you when you act justly or not. Therefore, its rather more important to stick to your ethical imperative than to fool around with them. Share your thoughts on how listening to conscience is of vital importance!

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Beyond Good & Evil

 

Beyond Good & Evil

The ideation of identifying what is good & evil has been consistently pertinent in the history of human existence. Reflecting and thinking on this aspect certainly helps one to channelize their thoughts in the sense of prioritizing things which are important to them, not just desirable, more tangible than the ideas that comforts them. And it sometimes becomes almost obsolete to think of the way you are passing through life mostly because of the busyness yet un-effective routine and partly because its part of the societal norm. The norm is to do what everybody else is doing even though it may have undesirable consequences & may not even make any sense at all. But due to its prevalence, its accepted as the generalized way of living however asinine that may seem upon careful consideration & observation. The evanescent nature of emotional trauma, suffering or even joy although seems to be very much rife but still its overlooked when it comes to using the same knowledge pragmatically.

 

Historically speaking, the view has not changed much even when compared the intention and the consequences that people of different ages & experiences go through. Even though, technological & scientific advancement is certainly considered the trigger for modernization but the principles that are required for a good life still stand a common ground. They are as old as the mountains as Gandhi would say. Its necessary to accept the vulnerabilities & loopholes and then make mind maps seeking relevant and consistent information from the past that makes it arguably efficient in determining the advancement of one’s life.

 

Apart from the uncertainty that lingers in the contemporary world, it is however explicitly possible to have predictability ‘cause of the consequences making much of what we know certain to a high degree even though not knowing what is necessary for us to know makes us vulnerable to threats. It’s not just acting on what we know that makes it good or evil but also the knowledge of that measure of good & evil for Adam & Eve ate of the tree of good & evil. Many argue and make the tree, the subject of discourse, its not the tree which makes this event important but the knowledge gained from the disobedience which made them know and distinguish in good and evil and consequently to act on it. So the argument is that even though what we say good or evil still was in existence but it was not triggered or came into applicability until they came to know about it.

 

For according to Shakespeare, “There is nothing good or bad, but our thinking makes it so.” It is the knowledge of good & evil but what is already known. The analogy is simple: You cannot act on what you don’t k now. So, you can’t know whether what you act upon is good or evil or based on truth or on ignorance unless there is a frame of reference set to identify it. And the likes of Freidrick Nietzsche have had plethora or discourse on this discipline criticizing the philosophies of many philosophers in his Beyond Good and Evil which reflects this ideation in a better way as to how it may be impossible to know what is truth or even ignorance, light or darkness, love or hatred without the establishment of a measure which standardizes what we value out of any given scenario.

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