How fair and natural it is to be partial and biased?
2 guys fighting it out real hard on the grass tennis court. You passionately supporting the guy in red. Most likely reasons of you doing so would be that maybe you two are from the same land or region or family... (or maybe because you like his eyes!!!). Seldom do people devotedly support the better of the two players.
Is it rationally, morally and ethically right and justified? If yes, then doesn't favoritism of any kind also fall under this category of pseudo-warranted act. Why do we stand up against the bunch of people who discriminate against another bunch that doesn't belong to their group? Be it caste, color, ethnicity, religion or any association one favors his/her core group over others naturally.
Should we assist this natural feeling or curb it to make humanity the only group? Or is humanity also a selfish group and we should treat all living beings as kindred? Or is it that we just don't know where to draw the line?
Jass Oberroi
2 guys fighting it out real hard on the grass tennis court. You passionately supporting the guy in red. Most likely reasons of you doing so would be that maybe you two are from the same land or region or family... (or maybe because you like his eyes!!!). Seldom do people devotedly support the better of the two players.
Is it rationally, morally and ethically right and justified? If yes, then doesn't favoritism of any kind also fall under this category of pseudo-warranted act. Why do we stand up against the bunch of people who discriminate against another bunch that doesn't belong to their group? Be it caste, color, ethnicity, religion or any association one favors his/her core group over others naturally.
Should we assist this natural feeling or curb it to make humanity the only group? Or is humanity also a selfish group and we should treat all living beings as kindred? Or is it that we just don't know where to draw the line?
Jass Oberroi
6 comments:
@garry
1. And I feel we are heading towards a world where country, color, caste, ethnicity would not matter in a person's identity.
Really??? I see the other thing happening... More and more kind of divisions are being framed up and labeling being done to attach tags to a human being... And we falling for every division... People are happy being protected and associated with a group if it suits them... Individualism is being limited to one's being in bed only...
Though I would consider this post odd for my mind but I don't know why am I adding a comment to this post: just for the sake of it OR maybe I do have something to say.
Well, here are my 2 cents...
1. I am not a regular blogger, but there were too many questions. As soon as I could think of an answer for one and hop on to the next, my mind would elude from thinking on the next. But still their sequence was good. And answer to the leading question: Well, I can't say if its unfair or not, I feel like being in a vicious circle. for eg: In a car-bike accident, you can't point whose mistake it was, was it the car-driver's mistake who was on his call, or the biker's mistake for that he didn't give his indicator before taking the U-turn.
2. I would really like to know what made you add 'grass' to the type of tennis court.
-Puri.
I think your last line says it all...wherever and whenever things are overly favored or loathed- "we do not know where to draw the line"...and all we know is to be drawn by emotions. Everything would be ethically justified if we practice restraint well in advance, before we start to favor something or someone with an abnormal passion. There are some who choose people (in any field; politics, sports, religion etc), depending on their likeness to them, a natural 'animal' trait; but which has drastically over-expressed itself in our species or maybe it is something that we haven't been able to regulate well. Applying this here, such people's choice of player would pivot around any similitude (ethnic, religious, color etc) or any aspect(eyes as you said). However, those who have their logical constraint alive, would opt for the one who has the real performance caliber unlike the rest of the crowd who is going by what the raw eyes can see. Thus, I would say that a bias is justified if it is a sensible inclination instead of a prejudiced one.
First up, I will take Puri's 2 cents and save it for the rainy day. A cheapstake, that is me! Haha
About the post:
Justifiable or not, a bias is something that comes very naturally whatever the sub-reason to it may be, as put by Gurinder. There are times when we meet someone and without having spoken two words with them, we instinctively decide we do not like them or vice-versa.
I might meet better-looking, more successful, more knowlegable, more entertaining lawyers in my life but my sister will still and always be my hero. I might not be discriminating against anybody else or not recognising or applauding their skill. I just have a different bond with my sister. :)
@Gurinder
And I feel we are heading towards a world where country, color, caste, ethnicity would not matter in a person's identity.
A world surrounded by silver giants and where technology will be our new God, you mean? The approaching lights are already blinding me!
@ Garry
"I feel we are heading towards a practical anarchist and atheist world."
I too feel the same but that in no way makes me believe that such divisions and biases will fade away then as religion is not the only division existing...
@ puri
"In a car-bike accident, you can't point whose mistake it was, was it the car-driver's mistake who was on his call, or the biker's mistake for that he didn't give his indicator before taking the U-turn."
My post raises a different question though... It asks you why would you support your friend even though he's at fault and the other person is clean...???
@ puri
"I would really like to know what made you add 'grass' to the type of tennis court."
Just to bring my thought closer to your imagination and realisation so that you could quickly relate to the question in my mind...
@ avy
"However, those who have their logical constraint alive, would opt for the one who has the real performance caliber unlike the rest of the crowd who is going by what the raw eyes can see. Thus, I would say that a bias is justified if it is a sensible inclination instead of a prejudiced one."
Yes, exactly and that leaves almost all of us on the illogical side of the balance... Seldom do we support and side with the real better half of the argument... Often we go with our emotions... Though in the end I would say that I don't rate this emotional stand any lesser than a logical stand... We aren't binary calculators but a combination of flesh and mind...
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