The thought just struck me during one of my many discussions or arguments with my good friend. The argument was about a single particular issue not being ethical. Of course these kinds of arguments have no consensus; it has people on both sides trying to trust their views on the each other. But the argument itself set me thinking on how does one measure ethicality. What would be the benchmark for ethicality? When one says “you are not ethical!” what does it mean, does it mean that the person is not ethical at all.
Thinking more deeply into it, I feel that everyone in this world is ethical but by his/her own standards, his/her own benchmarks. It’s just the degree that varies. As cliché it may seem, I wouldn’t necessarily say what Yudhishtrar did in Mahabharat was ethical (for all those of you who are not able to relate to him, this guy was an embodiment of truth and justice and during a war he announced that his opponents son had been slain, but it was an elephant, who shared the same name as the son that had died), but then according to him, it was every bit ethical because when he announced the news, he said, “ Aswathama (loudly) the elephant (in a whisper) was dead”. But then again, Yudhishtrar’s this particular action is a debate by itself.
We cannot judge others ethicality because as one of my eminent professors once said, you and I are different because we are wired differently in different environment. What is ethical to me is not necessarily ethical to you!!!
Values and principles that are imbibed in us from our birth are withheld by some without a question while the others question the rationale of the same. When one does not question these values, they could probably share the same degree of ethicality, I repeat, they COULD PROBABLY share the same degree of ethicality, not necessarily though. I, of course do not have the sufficient evidence to back my statement, it’s more based on intuition than any statistical evidence, but hey like I said, it’s my perception. Am probably wrong, am probably right…
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