we have evolved some basic truce by usage over time

 

An action cannot be right just because I am inclined to perform it.

Nor can it be wrong because someone whom I do not exactly see eye to eye performs it.

Right and wrong are relative, one may argue, but still when there are many people walking around on this earth in addition to me,  we have evolved some basic truce by usage over time, on what is right or otherwise. In addition, the majority of people have followed the terms and conditions. Therefore, I am bound to accept and follow such terms as working agenda for my own peace and the peace of others.

Coming to think of it, marital fidelity, parental responsibility and even fairness in life and having generally accepted manners and lifestyle, are all essential parts of this truce.

In addition, often, as we evolve as a group, many of the traditions attain the force of law. Moreover, some people even assume that such laws have the endorsement of God

It is not difficult to ponder over these facts and accept them at intellectual level.

Nevertheless, at emotional level, our animal tendencies tend to raise their heads and the impulsive man within defeats the rational one.

In a group, be it family, professional colleague, co-patriots and so on, we have the advantage that our colleagues pull us back to realities of life when we tend to wander off.

However, in social media, we find no such restraints. We tend to notice nothing except an arrogant muddled mind and the keyboard, and a lighted console or a mobile screen perhaps in a dark backdrop.

This issue should attract our attention.

Are we going back to the jungle?

Nevertheless, even jungles have their rules.