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Comment on Chhidra by Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:41:50 +0000

Thanks Adi – I graduated last month. Hope you are doing well – still in Mumbai?

Comment on Chhidra by Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:31:15 +0000

Nice. Especially the second stanza. Nice imagery.

And I just saw that you finished your Ph.D!! Congrats and all the best for the future.

Comment on Dor by Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:10:09 +0000

Very true and beautifully written- brilliant analogies.

Comment on Khuda by akhilesh

akhilesh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:39:57 +0000

awesome..
the poem and the comment..

Comment on Dor by akhilesh

akhilesh — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:10:40 +0000

yaar mujhe pyar ho gaya hia teri kavitao se..

Comment on Morality is context-dependent by Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:54:10 +0000

No, just a hunch.
But yes, quantifying the morality of population, if that could be done in some sane way, and looking at the statistical distribution would be pretty interesting, and amusing!

Comment on Morality is context-dependent by Nikhil

Nikhil — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:03:21 +0000

“I am very likely more immoral than an average person” -> Is that based on any scientific studies? What is the likelihood/probability that you are more immoral than an average person? How immoral is an average person?

Comment on Evolution of Morality by Nitin Gupta

Nitin Gupta — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:50:55 +0000

I think that these moral and legal codes diverged very early in evolution, and have thus been different in the recorded history – so agree with you. My point is that they were probably the same to start with.

Moral code surely depends on the prosperity of the society. And there might be a visible correlation/trend between the moral code of different societies and general their prosperity levels (i.e. some moral values only being found in rich societies).

Homogenization – probably not anytime soon. It may take thousands of years, only if humanity survives that long. Note that by homogenization, I do not mean that conflicts will be resolved. I just mean that the geographical dependence of morality will diminish. There will still be conflicts in the final state of global minima, but beyond this any changes to moral code will only increase conflicts.

Comment on Evolution of Morality by Himanshu

Himanshu — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:40:23 +0000

I think moral codes and legal codes have been quite different historically. Legal codes are enforced by the powerful and authority of the state and it can change dramatically with the leadership. For instance, in Latin America, Spaniards enforced which God and language to follow. In democracy, it becomes rather stable.

The morality is strongly tagged with prosperity of the society. If something can be afforded, then people tend to argue that it can be done. For instance, in ancient India it was moral obligation to give alms and feed the visitors, but there was no such thing in the western society. Right now, a case similar to that of Terry Schiavo is straight-forward in India, but created a huge storm in the US. Morality is also tagged to your beliefs, especially religious.

I don’t see the world heading towards a homogeneous morality. The society we live in is expanding across national borders and gives us the feeling that ethos are same everywhere. But the societies in this world are far from unification and I believe, the ethos will keep varying across the societies depending upon prosperity and beliefs.

Comment on Evolution of Morality by Morality is context-dependent « bhasadalaya

Morality is context-dependent « bhasadalaya — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:02:53 +0000

[...] as well as the specific society in which the action is evaluated (the roots for this go back to the origin of morality). In other words, morality of an action cannot be judged without exactly specifying the society in [...]