If cold- blooded murders are the acts of psychopaths, warm-blooded murderers are discussed below.
Destruction of nature, including loss of plant and animal life, destruction of humane values - destruction of all the above due to carelessness, ignorance or stupidity – all tantamount to murder by omission, which I call warm-blooded murder!
There is an urgent need to stop and think about the pace of life one leads, there is evil lurking in our actions, waiting to kill our old and infirm, waiting to destroy the lives of our children, all in the guise of a busy life-style. The most astonishing fall –out is that there is total anonymity about the persons behind such crimes… they live most respectably among us and we too have had our part to play in the destruction.
A spoon of sugar for a cup of coffee helps, but two spoons will kill! This will be evident when one stops to think! “Two much” of even the best things will have a flip side which will be potent enough to cause destruction.
Enough of the rhetoric! Now it is time to consciously think and act to prevent further degeneration of the acts of the human species. What are the causes for such actions and how do we prevent recurrence!!
Ambitions and goals should be identified to synchronize with responsibilities towards the family, society and nation and surely with the world. It is not acceptable when one says” My ambition is to become rich” or when one says,” I’d like to buy my car before I am 22!”. All ambition should be academic in pursuit of knowledge and the commercial part has to blend with one’s responsibility to his family, to start with!
Consider simple acts of careless planning which can be destructive! My mother, being ailing and infirm, has been needing care and assistance physically and psychologically; I should have take a conscious decision to plan to be by her side for the time she requires my presence. I have, due to my ignorance, carelessness and stupidity, chosen to father three children and then have been caught up in the race to earn money to provide for my children, neglecting the care and time my mother needs- for most part and am committing warm-blooded murder by not taking care of her health and needs in a timely manner.
I now realize that I have failed to plan my life well but my professed ignorance cannot be palliative to my mother. I stand ready to commit a warm-blooded murder and my society is too enamored with my financial success to worry about my mother or her pain. My crime will go undetected in the eyes of society… but you reap what you sow… my children will also plan with ignorance and when I do correct them, they will be impervious and cite me as a role-model to follow!
I can reverse the destructive effect if I stop to think…stop doing what I am currently doing… stop because it is a destructive act… bound to destroy my mother and me and also the lives of my children. Having done this, now, to consolidate, I should ensure my children realize that they need to be ambitious academically and that is all what is needed; their academic excellence will nurture their progeny as well as their parents, the culture imbibed will support them to live satisfied lives to blend with their responsibilities.
Please stop to think… consolidate… educate your children academically and culturally… if you do not… you are racing fast towards total destruction... all due to your destructive acts!!
Jwala
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