Promise, we didn’t ask this question with any motive. It’s a predicament that we’ve faced so very often. So, let’s hear it from Dr Bhaskar Das in the May 20 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. A question that’s worrying us for a bit: How much should one get dictated by one’s conscience?
A. This subject ideally can’t be a matter of discussion. If the conscience is missing, how one can function. But I presume that your doubts have arisen after watching what is happening all around. In fact I think that such a situation does arise in everyone’s life at some point or other. But due to situational compulsion, we rationalise and generate multiple shades of grey in the definition of what is conscience and feel absolved. Sometimes it is difficult to answer an apparently simple question sir, when one stands in front of the mirror. It never lies. But we create our own bubble to solve (read avoid) an existential dilemma through an acceptable conscience (a kind of dialectical challenge).