Friday, December 2, 2011

Guilt by association

How much suffrage must a man endure from his guilty past to actually be in this moment, sit quietly, lay back and see the sun rising on a winter morning? Is having hope dangerous because it makes one yearn for a future even if there isn't one. Some believe that hope never dies. It appears to be that way because we always wish to have a better tomorrow. Atleast, better than today! Hope is a good thing to have because it makes us look forward to the future positively. In all earnestness, it is a ray of light dispelling the darkness in one's life.

However, it has its moments of weakness just like everything else. It affects everyone equally without any discrimination and helps even the guilty escape their mental prison's by helping them dream. Judging other's has been a common passtime human's indulge in and is based on moral compulsions.

Morality however, never applied to the victorious armies of past, who seldom behaved in a manner befitting a civilized race and were hell bent on destruction of the unfortunate losers. The king's and general's actually treated the oppressed enemy's population as objects and looted their wealth and integrity. They also compensated their famished soldier's by gifting them the opportunity to fulfill their desires without any consequential repercussions.

All these events from history makes one think of the times which influenced decision's leading to the event's. Makes one think how stupid or ingenious were those people. Makes one wonder how different would things be if you yourself were there in those time's. But the fact of the matter which one doesn't realize is; you end up second guessing the past based on the knowledge you've acquired by reading books sitting in the comfortable chair of the present time's. It's sometimes difficult to realize that your wisdom is the cumulative product of those very same mistakes committed in the past. Things would be very different had you been in the past or if the lessons from the past were not recorded. Merely gaining superior know-how should not ideally entitle anyone to use it unfairly. But then again, we don't live in an ideal world and morality is only used to gain an unfair advantage by blaming others.

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