Guns will lead us..alright!

Never before had I felt as proud for being an Indian after hearing Shivraj Patil's statement on terror attacks. Nowhere was the strength expected from a leader at the head of a country as great as India but there were plenty politically correct statements to be found.....And how fondly do I remember my Chest swelling up with pride when he remarked that NDA govt lost 11000 Indians to terrorist..while till date they lost just 6000 (and still counting even as I write this post)...did I hear somebody say that we aren't making any progress....now try and better this....(of course he was also counting the casualties in Kargil war...the gujarat riots...and all J&K casualties...but these are just minor statistical assumptions aren't they?). PM as usual was extremely quick to condemn the event (really surprised how efficiently he manages to do this after every mishap). IB was also extremely quick in labeling this attack a terrorist attack because the AK 47 the terrorist (thank-you-IB-or-I-would-not-have-known-what-to-write-here) used are not available to normal people (ah! how I wish they had been sold at our friendly neighbourhood store...may be..we could have defended ourselves then).

Amid all this lets...not forget the media...but I would not dare say anything in their honour lest you all leave my blog for (obviously) better readings.(try some news site)...but I can not ignore the a incident so striking that I don't think I would ever be able to forget it again....Lying on ground was a man injured from a blast with no one to attend and our blessed cameraman was busy getting a better angle. Obviously for our viewing pleasure ...is not a better camera angle more important than tending to his wounds...(and people still say that media is not dedicated enough)

I remember a holy man once said that he would pray for us a land where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. I do not know when the day would come when my mind would be without fear....but I do know people in my land always hold there head high to look as far as they can so that they may know where to duck when the terrorists strike next.

Dilbert Quotes

It is all arbitrary... who is your pet, who is your food and who is your insurance sales man!!!

Q. So how do I convince people that my pet is not food....

A. Teach the pet to be an insurance salesman

But don't we have reasons for these distinctions..

Aww...who cares they are not good reasons anyways..

Courtsey: Scott Adams

Ethically Right and Morally wrong?

"Such an unethical way of learning ethics"

Thats what my sidey commented when I asked him for some ready-made answers to the case study to be disscussed in same class few minutes later.

I was (as usual) answer less (or should I say speechless), But my other class mate came to my rescue..."Its his choice, professors are not ethically obliged to force him to learn, if he doesn't want to......"

Prof entered the class...started teaching but there discussion didn't stop (Now was this ethically correct?)

With so many viewpoints flying about I could not help but not understand any of them, hence another one of my class was wasted...(That is Rs 7000/Hour)

All that said and done....(but not underestood) I turn the pages of the newspaper and I wonder if it is ethically correct, for an unemployed man to kill himself when no one loves him.

Here are some excerpts from my ethics class (which I somehow still registered):

Situation 1. Suppose Bill is a healthy man without family or loved ones. Would it be ok painlessly to kill him if his organs would save five people, one of whom needs a heart, another a kidney, and so on? If not, why not?

Situation 2. You and six others are kidnapped, and the kidnapper somehow persuades you that if you shoot dead one of the other hostages, he will set the remaining five free, whereas if you do not, he will shoot all six. (Either way, he'll release you.)

Situation 3. You're in the cab of a runaway tram and see five people tied to the track ahead. You have the option of sending the tram on to the track forking off to the left, on which only one person is tied. Surely you should send the tram left, killing one to save five.

But then why not kill Bill?

Since I fancy myself to be a thinking existence (who still retains some of his mind)...I have thought out a possible explanation for the above three situations. But since I also fancy myself a supporter of free will (and thinking) my ethics does not allow me to publish my thoughts and hence restrict your own thoughts. But I still can't control my desire to write my mind in this post...so here I come on to compromise (and life is all about compromises). A week from now I will write my own thoughts in the blog, which again would not make much of a difference since no one reads this blog but I am a manager.