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o, being intolerant means
NOT letting another man
or woman express and/or
follow his/ her views and way of
life and imposing your thought on
another person which in its truest
sense is a crime.
The fact that we know what is
right is because we've seen its
wrong counterpart so we know
for sure that the former is right.
It's fair if one is told about both
right and wrong and then asked
to decide. (which is not normally
done)
So, this right and wrong, let me
tell you, is according to the cur-
rent mood of the society. Every
population is a bell. What a ma-
jor chunk of people follows at a
particular point in time form the
society’s moods. They keep having
mood swings, you see.
This right and wrong is but a
perspective which keeps changing
with more knowledge, with time,
with the kind of people around
you.
It's fair if one is taught how to
discern between the so-called
right and wrong rather than blind-
ly following them just because
they had been taught in the infan-
cy of our cortical development.
At a time when we probably be-
lieved that the sky could fall. At
least I did.
As I am about to touch my one
score milestone I've realized that
something being right or wrong
is just a statistical probability. And
since every population is a bell,
that means that at all times, at
least 10-20% of the people will
have thoughts and ideas which
differ from those of mass socie-
tal acceptance.But the fact is that
these numbers approximate to
only 10-20% because genera-
tion after generation there hasn't
been any evolution of thought.
There's just been a mere passage.
Those 10-20% passed it on to an-
other 10-20%. And also because
nobody wanted to hear the so
called minorities out. So the re-
maining 80-90% of the population
does not know the alternative
view because they were too busy
being intolerant. The former sec-
tion of the population has been
suppressed from time immemo-
rial; maybe an attempt by a wile
crooked nosed guy.
On a more serious note,because
today, suddenly there's been an
awakening where the ideas of
those minorities or lateral think-
ers are coming to the fore, (the
social media revolution. Coming
to the fore for phony reasons
or for genuine reasons, that's a
whole different discussion, alto-
gether) many of the majoritarians
are realising that the ideals they
stood for all these years might
have been out of compulsion or
out of dearth of other suitable
ideas or probably just because of
irrational blind faith. Today, as the
society gets more and more ideas,
different sections of the popula-
tion are conforming to what suits
them rather than what ought to
suit them. Rather than buying
something because that's the only
thing in the market. This is as sim-
ple as Coke and Pepsi or Com-
plan and Horlicks.
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So who are the ones who've
been fooling masses for all these
centuries and millennia into fol-
lowing what suited their tastes?
Well, I call them dictators and
mass murderers. Murderers of
ideas, murderers of creativity.
Centuries together, Dalits had to
tolerate intolerance, until one of
them awoke and explained and
quietly expressed, I will NOT be
a bhangi anymore just because it
suits the taste of a pack of manip-
ulative narcissists.
Centuries together lives got
burnt literally, until somebody
chose to change the perspective.
You and I like to call that practice
Sati.
Maybe there were 50 out of the
100 women who did not wish to
burn themselves, but JUST be-
cause it was the "trend" they had
no choice. For them, it was the
Only option. Stark irony! Today,
it'd be a criminal offense if the
wife tried to burn herself down
(even if willingly) on the pretext
that her husband was dead.
The point about tolerance is to
break rigid statistical ideas and let
people do what they choose to.
Of course, they don't have the
right to hurt others. That's not
tolerance. It's tolerance only and
only when there's NO negative
influence on another person's life.
Having said that, I also understand
that hurting somebody is a very
ill-formulated gray arena. Now,
As I am about to touch my one score
milestone I’ve realized that something
being right or wrong is just a statistical
probability.