Don't you feel outraged at rape, street violence, drugs, terrorism, etc? Can they take place on the scale they do now, if the society feels really infuriated and declares and executes a policy of zero tolerance for such crimes. What about the white-collar crimes (the Enrons, the Satyams, and similar large scale white collar scams), which leave several hard working middle class people and also the old and helpless people, destitute? Who can say that truthfulness, kindliness, tolerance for the under-privileged, loyalty, hard work, fairness, equity and justice, excellence, cleanliness, helpfulness are bad? Then, why are we not teaching them to our children? If the child does not learn them, how can it ever inculcate them? If children do not imbibe these values, who is responsible for it?
Frequently, we may be called upon to choose between “being happy” and “being right”. These are very common situations in our work environment and relationships. Where values are involved, you should always choose “being right”. Everything else is negotiable. Values are not.
The next thought is about “Learning values”
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