Ethics

Hi Friends

Hope the audience of this blog is doing fine, despite the overuse of the word "crisis". When we are in the thick of the things, we tend to forget that situations,buildings, economy , everything is created through word. As its said in the Bible ( Genesis 1:3 ) : Then God said, " Let there be light". And there was light.

But let me come to the concern , I am having these days and words from a film I watched yesterday "Flash of Genius" professor echos in my mind. The film is based on real life story.A fight over patent between an inventor and the Ford motor company, over windshield wipers. As the actor says, "its not even about patent or money, its about Ethics".

Madoff case in USA, LTTE's and Srilankan governments fight, a non relenting judge in India, who is unwilling to resign ( even after indictment), Illionis governor's righteousness over attempted selling of senate seat and now Allen Stanford's ponzi scheme.

Yes the world is lot more richer ( except for this so called crisis) , more prosperous ( lot less people die of diarrhoea, malaria and more from lifestyle diseases like diabetes ) but are we together as humanity as ethical as, say 50 years ago. Not so far back, there were accounting frauds and Enron scandal. The point is the frequency is increasing. There would be many who would start counting numbers ( The population is more, so it should be propotional ) to negate this point. But Ethics is not number dependent. This is what make us different from machine. It is ethics which differentiate between nuclear bomb and nuclear energy, renewable energy and carbon energy, electronic tapping and surveillance.

Businesses cant be run without ethics. People these days have become so cynical that they accept this "as a fact of life" and give up the fight. Its not that the guilt doesnt sit in the hearts and minds of the perperator. It corrodes her/his conscience, like Satyam's Raju. So finally what did he get. Guilt, jail and downfall.

My belief is that the human beings are losing there "beings" and developing into a machine. Have you noticed , how many forwarded mails are on simple pleasures of life,the beautiful moments, which people miss, yet what they do is click the "forward" button.

Lets take a break and take in some fresh scent of air outside and look at the flowers and children, maybe they would remind us of what we teach to our children.

musings from Santa Ana

love Pranay