Saturday, December 15, 2007

Everybody is Selfish

It is not yet another Ayn Rand type argument that selfishness is a virtue. I am saying that a person can not be unselfish. Every person takes the decision that makes him more happy. e.g. There is no such thing as sacrifice. A person sacrifices because he would be less happy if he doesn't. Similarly, a person works for others only because he becomes more happy by working for others than working for himself. To conclude, I would say that any option has by default alternative of not choosing that option; a person chooses an option because not choosing that option makes him less happy.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Atheists and Theists are not different

atheism
/aythi-iz’m/
• noun: the belief that God does not exist.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/atheism?view=uk
[I hate to start like this but I couldn't think of a better intro]

Some people claim that they are atheists. But the problem with their argument is that they only "Believe" that the God does not exist. It sounds contradictory,because if you take "belief" as the basis then there is really no difference between those who believe that He does not exist and those who believe He exists.
Therefore there is not difference between a christian missionary who is trying to spread Christianity and atheists who are trying to spread so called rational thinking. Both of them trying to put their argument based on their belief and not some proof within the well accepted frame of logic.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Equality is a Myth

I believe equality is a myth. When you ask somebody whether he is xxxx (put maharashtrian,gujju,gult,mallu,tam etc) and if he proudly says I am an Indian, he is differentiating between an Indian and a non-Indian. When somebody says I am a human being first, he is differentiating between a Human being and other living things like animals, trees etc. When he says (rarely I have heard saying somebody so) I care for living things, he is showing scant regard to non living things like water, air, petroleum etc. When somebody (assume for the sake of argument) says that I am all for anything that exists then he is differentiating between things that exist and do not exist, e.g. only conceptually exist, like law, ethics, designation etc. The argument is endless. Therefore I believe that equality is a myth. The only thing that is is important is ability to live with inequality.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Glass Theory*

This is something that I argued during our Individual Dynamics (Organisation Behaviour) class.

We have been convincingly told that the person who thinks that the half filled is "Half Full" is an optimist and the one who thinks it is half empty is pessimist.
The argument against it is that the person who sees glass half full and gets happy is actually expecting the glass to be empty and hence happy that the glass is at least half full. On the other hand the person who sees the glass half empty is actually expecting the glass to be completely filled. He would then like to fill the rest of the glass. Hence, contrary to the popular opinion, the person who sees glass half empty is an optimist and the person who sees glass half full is a pessimist.
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* The name has been suggested by Piyush "Bhai" Chaurasiya.