Comments on: What is ethic to you, me or them?

By: Ami

Ami — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:49:31 +0000

SRK’s answer to your question: http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20070305-0.html

..sorry for being bothersome but I just had to find that link and paste it here so that you and everyone else who reads this post can realise that he’s been asked this question a gajillion times by annoying reporters before too.

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By: Mahak

Mahak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:34:55 +0000

@ Mayank – thanks for sharing your views..i appreciate when people do comment on this post…i assures me I am sane enough….

By: Mahak

Mahak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:33:53 +0000

@ Stonezen- your comments take me to an oblivion stage..

By: Mahak

Mahak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:32:23 +0000

@ Astralwicks- thanks dear…its a piece of inner reflection and lots of self questioning..

By: Mahak

Mahak — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:31:33 +0000

@ Ankur – I am still confused too…I think theres a thin ine differentiating the too…….

By: Mayank

Mayank — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:39:59 +0000

One man’s food is another man’s poison.

Ethics is a very subjective theme. Everyone has his own rules, his perceptions and usually we define other person’s behaviour as per our definitions. Is it right?

Absolutely not. Every person has his own way of life and we are nobody to comment.

Coming back to Ethics. What is it? I guess living our way happily but without harming others is Ethics.
Which action is ethical? If an action or behaviour, makes us happy, and does not harm anybody, it is ethical. If it makes others or someother happy in addition, its all the more ethical. If it harms anybody, but the action is justified, it is ethical. If it harms anybody and the action itself could not be justified, it is not ethical.

And thus the nuances goes…………..

For us In the end, whatever our conscience approves is eithical. Opposite should be classified as non ethical.

For others We should mind our business and if everybody does it,world would become a better place to live.

By: stonezen

stonezen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:12:42 +0000

I look around me here in suburban america, and I realise how far from reality the people here are. and they get upset at such things like picking up rolls at the supermarket without tongs!!Not hving the right kind of kitchen towels, and what have you all conttributing towards emotions on mythical scale!! I think about people living in urban India, real people ( as the parlance is these days): women who wake up in the morning do all the cooking, get their children off to school, pack their husband’s lunch, get ready to go to work themselves, have a hard day at work, commute home by train or bus or autorickshaw,stop at the vegetable market to fresh stuff for the next day, hurry home, supervise the children’s homework, get the dinner ready, watch TV with their better half, or else he’ll get suspicious (!!!!), clean up and go to bed not forgetting to set the alarm for just ‘Another Day’ only this is not McCartney’s,’Every day she takes a morning bath…..’ Do the people here realise such people do exist on this planet? I get terribly riled when they dismiss neighbourhoods saying they are not right as there are too many ‘immigrants ‘ there and therefore it does notch up to the standards expected by middle and upper middle class.
this is the proverbial outcome of being cocooned in cotton wool, so much so anything other than what one is used to or better what one is supposed to hold up as a benchmark for ‘decent’ living is not that way anymore. Cats acquired as pets are declawed , never mind the terrible pain the poor animal has to suffer, and the grim fact that the cat lose a bit of it’s paw as well in the surgical procedure. they , those neurotic owners who decide to do this, then proceed to keep the feline creatures literally under house arrest!!they never get to go out at all, but of course all this is because they do not want theur pets to be mowed down by traffic!! they’ve never heard of ’short and sweet’ it looks like!!! Yes, the cat might/ might not get hit, but good heavens, it has a life!!! It can go out, explore, breathe the natural air, feel the breeze, hunt for prey hidden in bushes and drains, flirt with those cats that are out!!In short just plain live!!!We have a cat next door who charges for our garage whenever he gets the opportunity. that is his big adventure, till the entire family comes looking for him. Sometimes, he gets stubborn, refuses to budge. Talk of the freedom of spirirt! Cats have them too, and more, it just brought across to me how terribly selfish we humans are. anything to indulge our whims and fancies, to hell with the others! Pets are objects, not beings with souls like us. What a world!!!!

By: astralwicks

astralwicks — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:24:19 +0000

hi fruity…wonderful to find people who express their angst. to realize that all choice…yes, no or don’t know is a decision that is going to impact all of us everywhere, although unconnected presently, bestows great responsibility on us. if you are actually throwing platefulls of food then its time you stopped it. it is time to realize that what you threw could actually have fed somebody else.
only we can be responsible…to each other and to the world…remember the world…or it doesn’t matter…we will just move on to the moon or mars and have picture postcards on our evolved invisible softboards…keep writing

By: Ankur Aggarwal

Ankur Aggarwal — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:09:11 +0000

i could never understand the difference between ethics and morals/values… sometimes they look the same, sometimes not….. whats ur opinion

By: fruitymind

fruitymind — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:44:49 +0000

@ Stonezen- Welcome back after so long….Your replies on this post are always required……I agree an unhappy marriage is also not ethical-its like cheating with your own soul and heart…
Quite an intriguing comment………

By: fruitymind

fruitymind — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:42:57 +0000

@ Sakhi- thanks dear….Your comments are always treasured by me…I shall wait eagerly for your medical ethic post……..for sure….thanks dear

By: stonezen

stonezen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:20:06 +0000

More on the the ethics line……why do people stay in marriages, and act out a farce, when the chemistry no longer works? For the sake of the children, one commonly hears mouthed, and how honest is that? Children, even very small ones radio in on negative and destructive vibes between parents, and that believe me ,is much more harmful, as they cannot reconcile the two things. they know the adults cannot tolerate each other, yet they carry on the farce of a happy marriage. The seeds of duplicity are sown here, and they translate it unconsciously into their lives..after all their parents lived by doing the very same thing, so it must be right!!!
How honest and ethical can we be in our everyday lives? It requires strength of the kind probably no one has, with the exception of Gandhi who terrified people with his ruthless quest for truth. WOuld we like to walk down a similar path?
I doubt if we can take two steps before we falter.

By: Sakhi

Sakhi — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:41:12 +0000

so many things have been writtena nd a ltoof people have praised you so i think i shouldnt do that ay more. but i cant help myself andhere i go… this one is an awesome post!

this plae is not much for me to lament about the medical ethisc and how it should be and how it is! butyou gave me an idea on a topic which i can actually write.

hope i do write it and do justice to the cause! good going girl! keep it up!

By: fruitymind

fruitymind — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:15:33 +0000

@ Radhesh- Thanks dear. Don’t feel guilty-just find a way to return a favour to someone else- a selfless favour!

By: fruitymind

fruitymind — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:14:35 +0000

@ Stonezen- I read your comment right in the morning and believe me i got goosebumps. I understand your plight-fighting legal battles in India is a challenge in itself. We have faced the situation too- and I have lost so much due to the stess and depression-trust me I do understand your plight. Been there felt that. And god bless us all with strength….Trust me thats all I can say- for people who have played with other people’s life my mind yells out profanities for them..May they rot in hell and thir carcass be infested with millions of scavangers…AMEN!

By: Radhesh

Radhesh — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:33:57 +0000

This is one of the best posts i have read in recent times. I m feeling guilty after reading it.

By: stonezen

stonezen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:45:09 +0000

You finally do whatever you have to, and better not to agonize over it. My mother’s alone in India too,and she is 82! WOrse, talking of rapes, mysister was brutally raped and murdered in a hostel run by nuns (!!!!) in Lajpatnagar,Delhi ,way back in 1985. What did we do? DId we engage a lawyer,and pursue justice through any of those umpteen feminist groups? No we did not. Not because we could not afford it, because my parents lost the will to fight and were so emotionally traumatised, standing up in a courtroom, and facing pitiless details about the how and why of rape was just too much for them.People did fault them for just lettings things be, but they did what they had to do. They adopted a girl child instead through the SOS. she was a tiny waif and now she is an empowered young woman who is a COmputer scientist. There’s ethics for me.