a perfect plan for everyone
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 (6:30 PM)
- does it even exist? -
i'm not so much a blog reader. even less so when the particular entry is extremely long and i don't go around reading people's blogs on a daily basis but sometimes when i really have nothing to do on the internet, i might start snooping around for things to do, and apparently blog reading is a great past time. so what's the connection between the heading and blog reading? well, i read the first couple of paragraphs off izzy's page - i'm not a fan of hers but i admire her style of writing and her command of the english language - and it was something to the extent of a perfect plan for everyone. like what she had mentioned in her entry, parents and religious leaders seem to like to say that something is right because they said so. for sure, this world is too diversed for anything to be perfect for everybody. and this brought to my mind, plato's dialogue of socrates and euthyphro. we were told euthyphro's father committed murder but when the situation was brought to our face, we realised that it was a situation of death caused due to negligence. but to him, his values taught him that his dad ought to be punished for one should prosecute even a killer who shares your hearth and home. to provide you with more insight to this dialogue, euthyphro's dependent murdered his slave and his father bound this murderer while sending someone off to consult a higher authority on what should be done. before the messenger could return, the murderer died and thereby the indictment of his own father. how you see this case really depends on your values, beliefs and your perspective.
this brings me to the plastic $2 note that has been quite a news to some extent recently. if you seen it on the news, there were people who were happy with the plastic note because it lasts longer and doesn't tear as easily. these are the rationalistic people. then there were those who were unhappy about it because a plastic note feels fake. these are the unrealistic people. the value is the same regardless of it feeling fake or not. now we bring the situation behind the scenes. hurray! from the environmentalists. reduction of paper notes equates to a reduction in deforestation. boo! from the environmentalists again. a use of non-biodegradable notes means more harm to the environment. even for a single entity, one decision can be either way on a scale. it's just how much you prioritise one over the other, i guess. don't believe something works for everyone. and don't try to please everyone because it can never happen. never. unless you have a friend named 'everyone'.