Yesterday while discussing (ok.. ok... arguing) with on of my friends a weird topic came out and prolonged our so called discussion for 1 more hour. The topic was "Is man Good or Bad?". Thats as a creature man has always been enjoying the self proclaimed victory over earth and the superiority to all other living beings. Now we decide whats good and whats bad. But the question is when we are born.... what is our moral status. Do we posses a conscience by birth. Are we "The Man" good and ethical by birth and only this society and circumstances makes us evil???? I strongly disagree. In my point man is evil by birth. When we are born we have only one thing known to us "destruction" and anything that is bad. In fact its the society where we learn what is good and this bad-man suppresses. Not convinced? Ok look into it this way...
We say a baby is the purest form and knows only good as it is unaware of the maya and is indifferent to materialistic possession. But thats where this theory has the largest flaw and fails. A baby is the true sinner.
Point 1) Consider a child which knows nothing, not even how to speak and not what is death and what is construction or destruction. And here a butterfly comes which fascinates our baby. No sooner the butterfly comes to its reach, the baby catch holds of it just to mutilate it in to torn pieces and a life ends. Now the child does not know killing is bad but some thing some basic instinct worked inside which encouraged him to mutilate the butterfly. Had man been ever good by birth then the default instinct should be constructive instead of destructive. Give a new toy and its gone in no time. When man is born it has one instinct in him "evil", which knows destruction. But in flow of time, the social rules teaches us that we should not listen to this bad in us and we start to suppress it.
Point 2) Say you are alone and you know no one is there to see you. Then what is the action that first strikes to mind? Its the weirdest fantasies that we try to realize. Most of the times we feel the overwhelming urge to do anything that has been taught as bad.
Point 3) Teach a baby how to write a letter it will take much effort. But teach him how to break a pen it won't take ant effort. Any one adult or child to take very less time to learn anything thats bad. Because we have a hidden interest for it. Our inner self is slanted more towards bad then good. Accept it or not. Thats the truth.
This is the real bad that resides in us, in each of us. But we misunderstand to conclude that man is good by birth and only this society makes a bad out of us. But alas! only the reverse is true.
4 comments:
i dont know why i want to argue with you on this topic but i am not getting any points.
ha ha ha
it may be my madness.
my heart is encouraging me to fight without any weapon..
finally i calmed down and spoke ..... appriciable logic
who says breaking a pen is bad? when you don't have the concept of life and death, how can you say the baby killing a butterfly, only accidentally, is a sin?
as you have said, a baby knows not good from bad. It is curiosity which drives him to do it. Now a baby cannot make a pen, can he? so he breaks it. Destruction is easier that creation, that's why the baby does it. now your judgment of what the baby does is based on what you perceive as good or bad.
as you said, the baby is pure and free from this concept of bad and good. good and bad are but relative terms. the baby being pure doesnt have this concept.
i consider that there is no good or bad by birth. it is only by upbringing. man is not evil. if all men were basically evil, how would the concept of good ever have come up.
Hmm Nice logic to put ur point. But I m not completly agree with ur points. A small kid z a innocent one.You hv taken a example of a kid with the butterfly,I hv seen small kids drawing fine art on sand. Is not it a cretivity of them?
One thing i am accepting that its a false statement that our society teach us bad things.. thts not true..
Anyways nice article...
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