O'Mahanta,
Suppose you (personally) had stayed in India and were working for Guwahati Development Authority as an architect-manager. Would you accept bribe to allow someone to build an apartment complex in violation of the codes or would you even think about it? If not, why not?
Give me a straight answer, without asking me a question in return. Then we can discuss more.
O'Deka
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
O'Deka:Are you suggesting that your generation and mine grew up without any moral foundation, either from home or from elementary school?To accept your contention would mean that we did not, that is why the nations leadership today--your contemporaries and mine, are so without any moral compunction.Of course I reject the notion entirely. Because I know that most of the people I grew up with are capable of being as moral as Dilip Deka or Rajen Barua or Ram Sarabgapani or any such icon of kharkhowa-morality.The other questions that comes to mind are:1: If parents of our generation or those after us too, were/are incapable of providing the moral foundations to their progeny, HOW will it change for the other generations to come? Are you not implying that because Dilip Deka or Rajen Barua or Kalam Saheb wishes so, it will happen miraculously? Would that not be a profoundly simplistic wish? A delusion in fact? 2: What has been the state of elementary education in Assam or the vast majority of schools in India? And who teach those kids? Where do the teachers get their own MORAL FOUNDATIONS to pass on to their charges--the pupils? If society's most privileged, the parents of the present , corrupt generation that leads the nation failed to impart moral education to their progeny, at their homes; how do you suppose the high-school graduates or at most a BA from a local college who are the elementary school teachers, have the moral wherewithal to instruct that future MORAL generation to save India from itself? 3: Furthermore, what is the source of morality in India? Where do the people get their moral education from? Do they derive it from their religious scriptures and leaders, or from secular ethics? In the former, if it is lacking today, where will it come for better moral foundations tomorrow? And if the religious teachers were either ignorant or frauds yesterday or are so today, how would things change, I mean unless one is depending on bigger and more temples or more effective bribing of the gods? If it were the latter, secular ethics that has proven to be schmethics, then who will train better teachers to impart truly secular ethics on the generations to come? And where will they get the bribe money to go get those plum elementary school teache jobs for life? Need I go on? I am sure you catch my drift. Now don't go silent on us toleave us reeling in our own despair. Tell us how!The least you can do :-).O'm
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What would be the best way to bring down the level of corruption to the minimum,if not completely,in a state like Assam? President A Kalam,in his Republic day address to the nation said " There are only three members of the society who can remove corruption ----They are father,mother and elementary school teacher."Is corruption then a problem of moral character ? Or,is it something to do with the transformation of our system?What is your view ?KJD_______________________________________________
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