Reason and emotion

Reason and emotion

Soren Kierkegaard once said, “ Without dilemma, there exists no man…”. Little did he know how prophetic and profound his words were to be. Till this date in the oxford dictionary there is no definitive word that describes what human behaviour should be and how people should react to certain situations, as a norm. there has never been a stipulated value and there has never been a fixed belief for a situation that brings morals into the picture.
  The reason for this is that each situation has its own set of rules, its own human values to which we must adhere. For example, crossing the street when there is a red light is not the same as killing a man who wants to die, as a favour.
    They are two completely different situations with two completely different moral values, even though both have a factor of morality in them. They bring into play very different emotions and very contrasting beliefs depending on the person experiencing it. The point here is that there is no set belief and there is no fixed way in which to tackle two such cases.
    A few years ago, in Rwanda, Africa, there is said to have been committed, a mass genocide. In other words, the mass killing of innocent people who were civilians and not military in nature. Genocide is a very dangerous term as it is interpreted in many different ways.
      The problem lay in the interpretation of the word genocide by the various countries that debated the issue. A few of the conservative countries who wished to leave this issue to the big boys (USA and the other P5 nations) said that there is nothing that suggests genocide as such but merely a mass killing of people who didn’t deserve to be killed.
      The USA debated this issue with its allies again and again to the point at which they lost sight of the objective they had set out to accomplish.
      The outcome was a deteriorated and dilapidated, completely overrun with poverty and crime, weak nation that was evidently leaking through the...