Posts

Showing posts with the label ethics

'Being Humane'​ Over Just Being Human

Image
The exact thing other than physique which differentiate me being human from other animals is that, we human have created morals and ethics in our life. In absence of those, I am likely another animal. But do I really have cultivated these values within me? To the questions on ethics or morality, we are taught to answer that mentioned mostly in the books. Because, we know that we are valued only if we answer it wisely. Just to keep our value up, we answer it ‘correctly’; but are we really sure about our own behavior in actual situation? A school boy is being taught in the school not to lie. At the same time, seeing his dad, though in a very healthy condition, asking for sick leave from office over phone. What exactly is the boy learning? This happens because we are driven by our own ideas of living and our selfish motives. In 2016, UNICEF had made a social experiment with a girl standing on a road and visiting a cafe, on how people treat her when she has two different at...