Spotlight

Conflict between power, self-interest, and morality!

Logan D Suza

Conflict between power, self-interest, and morality!

We can actually tolerate murders and injuries, but we cannot tolerate the murder of a Muslim by a Hindu or the loss of a Hindu’s life by a Muslim! There is nothing wrong with taking and re-taking lives ourselves! How many innocent people have been killed in the past few years and how many murders have shaken our conscience? How many murders have we protested? Yet each of them was a life. Somewhere or another, it was valuable. For some, those lives were also a part of their lives. Then we selectively reacted by looking at our party and ideology. We spoke out against those murders that were on my side, my party’s side, or that could be used to gain political benefits. Because the lives of some people benefit others. Again, we can also bargain with dead bodies.

What were our opinions and comments on the thousands of people who were arrested in various ways? Did we stand for every right and against every wrong? We did not stand. Why? We had to settle accounts of various interests and revenge. It gave me the opportunity to fulfill my revenge. Whenever someone can be suppressed, brought to discussion or divided public opinion – I have made statements. I have sent protest letters to newspapers. I have made long speeches on talk shows. Do you think the motive is good when someone is arrested in another country and the other country gets upset about it? Not at all, but it is motivated. When I remain silent in the face of a thousand injustices and speak out against the injustice done to me – then sympathy is not earned. Rather, hatred is expressed. The bias of religious fanatics and partisans has never been good.

When the politics of self-interest takes precedence over the politics of national defense, the reputation and image of the country will be damaged. The party in power claims inequality against them and spreads propaganda at home and abroad. As a result, bad messages about the country are sent to the outside world from both sides. However, all parties claim that this is their homeland and that they are patriotic. Some write letters to foreign rulers for power, while others become bitter. One can practice logic on whether they think about where the country’s honor stands. The tendency to cling to power by any means has repeatedly led the country into misfortune. The misery of crisis and the crisis of distrust have never left the country. The country has been repeatedly damaged by one after another multifaceted conspiracies.

When a person does not consider the bias between justice and injustice for his own benefit, he will be harmed either in the morning or in the afternoon. Because people were not sent into the world with the good fortune of all. If he supports injustice for the sake of convenience, justice is bound to be defeated. But truth does not lose in the end. He naturally rebels and the call of religion moves in the wind. Therefore, if he blindly takes the side of injustice to be in an advantageous position, he has to pay his dues to justice. If he sets a trap for the other, he also has to be caught in a similar trap. Then the damage increases. It causes unlimited loss of honor. In a balanced world, one group will only rule and the other group will be exploited – this principle is never permanent. If oppression increases in the chair of power, the fall also deepens and the list of losses is long.

One should take a stand for truth and against falsehood, not in terms of party or opposition, but in terms of justice and injustice. Those who remain silent during injustices, thinking that someone is being opportunistic, those who stand at a safe distance and become passive spectators of injustice, are also victims of similar revenge when they are in the opposing camp. This is part of nature’s revenge. And those who consider everything in terms of fairness never fall into major losses. Rather, even if they are temporarily stuck somewhere, they recover soon after. Injustice is being done to someone and I am sitting quietly, watching the fun – in this situation, when injustice happens to me, the entire universe will play a silent role. Because there is no opportunity to deny the responsibility of injustice and the debt of justice. Rather, as the debt increases, the urge to repay their debt will also increase.

Injustice should be protested in whatever environment, to whomever the injustice happens. If there is no power, then we should hate at least one side. If we feel happiness and joy when someone from the enemy side is harmed or harassed, there is no opportunity to put our name in the group of people. Time will change its color. When the winds of the world start blowing from the opposite direction, when the rod of power is turned upside down, I too will enter the house of destruction through the door of loss but there will be no one to provide security. Lest the future returns what I have left behind. So let me not hesitate to speak the truth. Let no fear or temptation build a wall in the journey of truth. Let no interest or bias stop me from protesting injustice. The injustice that I silently endure today will meet me tomorrow. Injustice always spreads. The more space it gets, the more the scale of injustice will increase.

Related Articles

Back to top button