Thieving minds

Society Religion & Philosophy
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is theft inherent in the mind of the those who hold power of any kind?

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^Larceny is a stair case that leads to the first floor of a high rise of power, power in itself is AIDS of human moral system.

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any attenuation? i think there is one. when the gluttony & gloating is not able to satisfy, the journey becomes inward to get past the amoral greed & dishonesty. it may take time, a lot of wasted time while unjustice happens, but eventually things turn around. but the question is, how is this attenuation brought about.

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^<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal/w:View 0/w:Zoom false/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid false/w:IgnoreMixedContent false/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText /w:Compatibility MicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> /w:LatentStyles <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--> **G*reed never enervates unless there is a revelation about the inutility of the object of the greed, I purposely used the word revelation because people are normally dazed by an overly commitment, always ready to come up with unique justification for their actions.

Dushwari, unsatisfied with the gluttony is a symptom that may lead to attenuation, it is not a reason. Let’s think again.

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Show me a politician who tells you the truth and I will show you a pathological liar.

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make beliefs of this world are all too sinister. we must take a look at the hidden everything that is under the not so hidden and by that token, larceny or n larceny, gluttony or no gluttony, eventually all liars, all bigots do get to know that their actions did not help them.

Intelliphant, what would you suggest to think about? elaborate on the concept of larceny & talk about the assumed corruption when ever someone becomes powerful? is not it that with power also comes or ought to come, an absolute sense of personal responsibility?

& to address your question, ikhlaq, the main thing to know is that comparative mindest may always lead people to go with the temptation of getting awed by the lying & how people get away with it.

& that, we all know, is not desirable.

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^<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal/w:View 0/w:Zoom false/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid false/w:IgnoreMixedContent false/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText /w:Compatibility MicrosoftInternetExplorer4/w:BrowserLevel /w:WordDocument <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> /w:LatentStyles <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--> **D*ushwari, it is hard to speak about it, and it’s even harder, rather, unimaginable to come up with a golden pill that may scrub out weaknesses among all human beings, ethics can not be forced onto us, even if there is a way to induce all the moral values, all the shining ethical principals into all the human beings in a bid to create a pure Utopian word, it is bound to fail for there are thousands of other catalyst that do interact with our values and give a different color under different circumstances, dealing with the symptoms can never cure the problem, its an anodyne, a temporary relief.

Long history of human civilization is a history of struggle against more than many odds, our ancestors had to fight with environment, with weather conditions, with other living species and more often than not against their own fellow homo sapiens, quest for survival forced them to possess the necessary tools to help them fight the odds, we, modern human beings, inherited the same sense of an ongoing quest for survival. Today’s larceny can be traced back to the same old quest for survival, however wars, conquests , rise and fall of the empires has only strengthened the greed to own more than required and to snatch it from those who can not protect it for themselves.

With power may come sense of responsibility, its only a question of who you attribute it to, but let’s not go there for now, let’s be cynical about it because most often its not the responsibility but a sense of supernumerary achievement. A sense of needless achievement is bound to accompany “arrogance”, and arrogance is an iron curtain to eyes of human conscious. A track on the way to power and greed has no destiny, only mile stones, it does not matter whether the milestone is mountain of human skulls or a golden throne. Duswari, we play God when we don’t believe in God, he lives in us when we stop living for him. Today human beings stand at a historical epic of human civilization; we can draw, enact and impose impressive moral values, we can strive to establish egalitarian societies, however as long as the source of inspiration is not correct our efforts will prove futile.

Tmhara bhai Ajkal kia kr rha Hy?
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points well taken, intelliphant. good anology of track & milestones.

ethical religious zeal gives way when the power greed is the mold for any susceptible mind.
otherwise, the only hope is banking on the goodness of people's characters as they develop & get better, genuinely.