08-15-2005, 12:04 AM
Godhara'02 is not a revelation but for a person who was born in 1980 it indeed is the first time when i have experienced such a horrendous thing. So it creates a perspective keeping this particular incident in my mind. If i would have been a 20 year old during the time of partition all my preaching would have been a little different.
I can just understand or atmost try to understand the horrendous events of direct action day or partition but i can never experience it. So ya there is a little problem over here. Recently after reading the details of 1984 riots my disgust for the gandhi family has reached its pinnacle.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Let me humbly request how do i accept the comparison????.
How do i accept that two wrongs make a right???.
This conclusion is a moral judgement based on an unqualified normative claim. Going by this line of thinking, whole legal system should go out the window as "two wrongs never make a right" <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Is there no distinction between a guilty and an innocent. The legal system unsures that an innocent person is never ever punished(exceptions are there but generally it does not happen). It has a system of evidence collection and trial and based on facts a guilty is given punishment, even death. So when a legal system gives punishment to a guilty it does a right to a wrong and not a wrong to a wrong. In rioting you are killing someone just because he is associated with that religion or community or sometimes country. The person has nothing to do at all with the crime. This comparison is what i call sophistry. Trying to paint the whole crime into the community. What we call the feudal mindset. Where if a member of the family does a crime, punish the whole family. We have been able to develop a better justice system. Lets have faith in that system. Lets make it work.
As regards "hindu guilt". I guess i never used this term. This is a secularists term, and most importantly there feeling where somehow they feel obligated to protect the minority where there is no need. Ya as regards a wrong. It is a wrong. Riots in gujrat were a horrendous mistake according to me. There are better ways. We will just make one fellow indian against another fellow indian who will then make plots against us and kill us and if he his given a chance he will kill us in riots also.
Abhishek
I can just understand or atmost try to understand the horrendous events of direct action day or partition but i can never experience it. So ya there is a little problem over here. Recently after reading the details of 1984 riots my disgust for the gandhi family has reached its pinnacle.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Let me humbly request how do i accept the comparison????.
How do i accept that two wrongs make a right???.
This conclusion is a moral judgement based on an unqualified normative claim. Going by this line of thinking, whole legal system should go out the window as "two wrongs never make a right" <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Is there no distinction between a guilty and an innocent. The legal system unsures that an innocent person is never ever punished(exceptions are there but generally it does not happen). It has a system of evidence collection and trial and based on facts a guilty is given punishment, even death. So when a legal system gives punishment to a guilty it does a right to a wrong and not a wrong to a wrong. In rioting you are killing someone just because he is associated with that religion or community or sometimes country. The person has nothing to do at all with the crime. This comparison is what i call sophistry. Trying to paint the whole crime into the community. What we call the feudal mindset. Where if a member of the family does a crime, punish the whole family. We have been able to develop a better justice system. Lets have faith in that system. Lets make it work.
As regards "hindu guilt". I guess i never used this term. This is a secularists term, and most importantly there feeling where somehow they feel obligated to protect the minority where there is no need. Ya as regards a wrong. It is a wrong. Riots in gujrat were a horrendous mistake according to me. There are better ways. We will just make one fellow indian against another fellow indian who will then make plots against us and kill us and if he his given a chance he will kill us in riots also.
Abhishek