...With all due respects to the German theologian, Hermann Busenbaum (1600-68) who had declared - 'When the end is allowed, the means also are allowed'.
And this little realisation came from a 6 month old Hindi film called 'Gangster’. A film with beautiful screenplay, it shows how a spy actually befriended a gangster's girlfriend as a part of his strategy to catch him.
He did achieve his motive, I agree and no questioning the fact that national security is indeed paramount. But as Narayanamurthy often says, it is not only important to create wealth, it is also important to create it through moral and ethical ways.
Just as in the case of creating wealth, every single task at hand might have a tough ethical way and another unethical shortcut approach.
Be it clearing exams or completing your desk job at work, the joy of success would indeed multiply manifold if the means adopted are universally thought of as moral & ethical.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
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I think the story line was OK in the movie. I didnt find anything wrong there. If you get a terrorist throgh cheating his crazy(or I should say love blind) girl , u just have to do it. Hey when those guys blow us up, they dont look in to the ethics of it.
Yea i know the whole Gandhian version of respecting your enemy. That will work when the enemy feels something is wrong with what he is doing. But todays terrorist are a different breed. They are not working for anybody, but they are working for their religion or themselves. The prpoganda is so deeply rooted in such a way that, their morality has been changed.
so i think the method shown in the movie was much better...At least it didnt produce any extra martyrdoms..
Or u can go the bush way...blow the whole thing up....
By the way u didnt present any alternatives...
I didnt see the movie :(
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