“Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
It seems the pandemonium around the world is
predicting another world war.
One ill-fated
catastrophe is the formation & development of global peace loving people
relying on incessant protests, violence, the never ending cold war in the
Middle East and those categorized as terrorists as a result of the injustice fight
for the unresolved existing hostilities for so long and in order to counter
attack the authorities behind the brutalizing, thereby affecting, all of us and
peaceful interrelations of global community.
Remember, Jesus was condemned to death and crucified
on the cross by the Romans for being a perceived threat to authority.
A problem that
touches everyone and everywhere is a morally repugnant modern slavery that
occurs in almost every country in the world and cuts across ethnic, cultural,
religious lines and most migrant workers have a higher risk of exploitation.
Migrant workers are three times more likely to be forced into labor than other
adult non-migratory workers. Most forced laborers and forced marriages are
sexually exploited peoples.
The world’s most
vulnerable people were subject to increased poverty, disruption in employment
and forced or unsafe migrations that put them at higher risk of becoming modern
slaves.
The persistence of
this fundamental abuse of human rights, modern slavery, is getting worse due to
a number of interrelated global issues including the Covid-19.
The world’s watchdogs
don’t have data on today’s worst offending countries, but Global Slavery Index
did give some indication of where the world’s modern slavery problem spots have
been within the last five years.
India was considered
to be the world’s worst offender having roughly 7.9 million people enslaved
with China and Pakistan coming in second and third with over 3 million people
enslaved in each country.
It’s important to note
that modern slavery touches every part of the world, even the United States and
Europe, which both had an estimated absolute number of victims in the hundreds
of thousands.
An Irish political
philosopher, Edmund Burke, said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing.” Evil also triumphs when the world
community, each individual, good or bad men make a conscious decision to hear
no evil see no evil and say no evil.
It seems to me that
in the course of human events, most people face their own defining moments when
they least expect it. Often that moment arrives when we are forced to make a
choice between doing good, doing evil or remaining indifferent because we just
do not care or exasperated by it for so long.
Also not making a
choice or indifference is the easiest choice to make; it requires no thinking
at all. The choice between good and evil is paralyzing not because there is
actual moral ambiguity or uncertainty in choosing but because evil &
indifference is so much more attractive, seductive and appears to offer greater
rewards no matter how long.
To stand for the
truth, what is good and right, is the hardest choice of all because they
require moral clarity and courageous acts of conscience. One must have
fundamental convictions and moral principles to speak the truth and to do good
and the right thing and in so doing define the moment instead of being defined
by the moment & very few lingering prejudices.
We evidently can see
that those that call themselves as a free world and global peace keeping
powerful nations are muffled either taking sides or preserve personal interests
or both. In the face of evil, the question in our morality is always a clear
one. We can choose to be silent; we can choose to be defenders and accomplices
of evil, we can choose to blindfold ourselves in the face of evil or get in the
faces of evil doers or we have a choice to be damn evil to condone it or openly
accept it.
What’s your opinion
about the never ending demolitions, by invasions and fighting chaos in our
world, amassing weapons of mass destructions instead of helping the needy, which
is threatening worldwide peace & generating fearful human interactions?
Remember, we may not
have the prestige of celebrities, the power of Pope or all other academic
luminaries, but our differences of opinions and stories are unique and equally
valued, effective and say something no one has expressed before. That needs to
be accepted and appreciated unconditionally.
Equally, as our
society tend to worship celebrity status individuals; those people also must
use their prominence to do their part in promoting equality, justice and peace
in our community without fear of retribution. If ordinary people like us do
conventional contributions to encourage communal living, our celebrities can
and must use their kudos & eminence to do extraordinary contributions. The famous
scholars and celebrities are also becoming motivated to do something using
their status and butter up those shared invigorating opinions to give a new
lease on life for the ordinary people.
Thumbs up and hats
off to those for being resilient to care, communicate, appreciate, validate and
share to disseminate what will be pivotal information for everyone and I also
send my hearty messages to those coyly pals to absorb all as much as they can
and put out their equally valued side of story regardless of the consequences.
Read more previous assessments
on world leaders, royalties, inequalities, different business bogusness &
immoral dealings time immemorial: https://timeforchangesociety.blogspot.com/2019/08/who-can-we-trust.html
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