Originally posted by: souro
For the second part, let me ask you something. Do you believe every human life is equally valuable (atleast excluding extremes)? Irrespective of class, creed, colour, gender, age, etc.?
Depends on what you mean by equally valuable.
- As contribution to statistics- yes.
- If its impact that one life has on other lives - NO.
If you answered 'No' then no further argument is possible on this matter.
If you answered 'Yes' then my next question is, out of the following two orders, which one sounds more reasonable to you?
1. I will try to negotiate and make the captor let go of as many hostages as possible irrespective of who the hostage is
2. I will try to negotiate for the release of women, children, sick and elderly and if possible after that, I'll see what I can do about young men
The idea of every negotiator at least in our country appears to be to get the maximum hostages released, even if it happens to be in exchange for the release of some hardened criminals or terrorists! Its just that some may have to wait a bit longer. As far as I know they get released in batches and not at one go.. A few at a time, followed by some more bargaining/appealing and the next batch freed and so on.
Whatever be the order, male or female, young or old, rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, sooner or later – death is certain.
I rest my case with the following lines by Rumi-
"Pain only exists in resistance.
Joy exists only in acceptance.
Painful situations which you heartily accept become joyful.
Joyful situations which you do not accept become painful.
There is no such thing as a bad experience.
...Bad experiences are simply the creations of your resistance to what is."
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