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Yes, I have jumped signals :(

Wow! This my 4th post in this blog series, In the last post I started with a title that might be little Controversy question or may be not (just with my thoughts), but this time I wanted to start with a Confession Yes, I have jumped signals. Why should I confess in the title? In session-6 our discussion topic was Ethics. What is Ethics? Is it relative or absolute? it depends on the situation? Let me go through few scenarios in my life and see whether I have been ethical or not.

First, let me go through Signal jumping case. In India, signal jumping is quite common in any signal and I'm sure most of you would have hear this in India, if it's green go, yellow go fast, red go faster. I'm not saying everyone jumping but a significant number of folks are jumping. Let me not get into why others are  jumping but, I'll let you know when/why I have jumped:

  • When an Ambulance is behind me, I don't have a choice to skip
  • On a medical emergency 
  • When someone behind me honking and when I see no one in the sight from any corners.
  • Rarely after 10:00 PM when I'm not sure if the Signal is turned off.
I know these are all just the reasons to justify my act but are those really ethical from an individual perspective. For me, I felt all the above reasons are agreeable but from the traffic rule perspective I'm not suppose to jump signal on any caseЁЯШБ. Ethics in this context absolute but for me it's a bit relative. 

Next case, as I said before when time permits I'll be covering "A Glass of milk in the midst of Chennai floods 2015". During Chennai floods 2015 we would have witnessed numerous humanitarian activities in every part of the city.




I'm not sure if I can tag this as one among a humanitarian works but let me put that perspective. We're living in a bigger residential complex just 400meters away from the Adayar river, our neighbourhood was inundated and we accommodate few families in our complex, one among that family was really well off, all they wanted was some space to spend that night and they are very much happy to spend their time in our corridors and they have refused to even step into anyone house despite having a infant along with them. I knew the struggles of what a family would be going through with a infant as I my daughter was also 11 months old at that time. 

They were really modest and they stayed in corridor, we shared them food, pillows, bedsheets by evening itself all seemed to be good as there was no power, all of us went inside home by 7:00 PM itself and wrapped the day. From 7:30 to 8:00 we happen to hear the baby crying initially we thought baby was able to adjust to new environment but, the baby kept crying and I ton of thoughts went in my mind then I stepped to check if it's alright with the baby and see if they require any medicines as we had a almost all kind of medicines. 

When I spoke with them I understood that baby was crying for milk then I realised none of us thought in that aspect. Back at home I had 2 glasses of milk and I knew that my kid would require only one for that night and since the area is inundated I was not sure if I would have milk for the next day morning. In meanwhile, I also know that the milk may or may not stay good as it was bought on previous day morning. "If I give it to this kid my kid will starve for next day, even I don't give now what if the milk is spoiled by morning?" Before I think on donating I wanted to check with my friends and neighbour to see if someone lead here. Along with me my friend joined, then I decided that I'll give it to the kid in need at least she can sleep peacefully and in morning I'll manage with something else.

I conveyed my decision to my friend and he said родрог்рогроХ்роХு рооிроЮ்роЪிройродு родрой் родாройроо் so it's okay even if you don't share it with them. I was firm and I came back home and said the situation to my wife, with no second thoughts she went into the kitchen and boiled the milk and asked me to give to them also asked me to check if they require any baby food. 

No one has defined morale for a situation like this, it's one self to decide what is good first for him/her, then how it impacts others and then take a call. 

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