It is surprising that we seemingly start becoming indifferent as we start growing old. We become too conscious of our environment and society and its limits even worse the perceived limits that we create. We start with our surroundings, when we don’t know the matter we don’t try to interfere in others’ arguments. Well it’s not entirely bad thing to do as we start implementing in beginning. Then we start enlarging this option and apply it more places at personal discretion wondering whether we have right to interfere and authority to do so.
As we continue to apply this non-interfering policy indiscriminately we start creating self perceived boundaries everywhere. As a result if we see some people indulging in heated argument we keep ourselves off that issue and if we see someone getting threatened or abused, we unfortunately use the same discretion to avoid being caught in a situation. Even more heinous act is when someone getting threatened or abused calls for help people back-off using the same pretext or may be its more smart to just bother about yourself. Then, we just go on to mind our own business and nothing else and nothing till it really hits us.
I used to think that this happens in India only and not elsewhere, unfortunately people across the globe have same tendency when met with similar situation. Since last we everyone has continuously watched one psycho’s greed for power has led him to butcher his own people and he doesn’t mind even firing missiles, dropping bombs from fighter planes to protect his hegemony. What people around the world do, nothing. Everyone is clueless, “can we intervene? Does that amount to interfering in a country’s private business? Do we actually have any right to do so?” world leaders can sit at UN and gossip about the situation in Libya but claim not having enough right to do anything or may be no one is bothered because it doesn’t affect them.
Politically speaking: In my country all secular parities, communist and muslim groups go on for protest if America launches any attack on a muslim nation but they all remain silent if it is by another muslim, because people care least for the lives more for the politics. All such groups are slient today in my country, I don’t want bring down the question about lives of people to a religious one, but it seems muslim life has a value only when issue involves a non-muslim on the other side.
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