What to Do With Corporations Who Pollute Environment?

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Punish the Culprits So Severely that They Will Start Behaving or Stop Existing

The biggest culprits of all who pollute the environment in every thinkable and unthinkable way are today's industries and their bosses in the cooperate sector. They spoil the oceans and seas with oil spillages, rivers and sky with hazardous chemicals and with tons of such criminal activities. They undo everything that the nature took millions of years to build. And they do it all free of cost, they pay nothing to anyone for what they draw from the nature- it's day light robbery that no one takes cognizance of.

So we asked several groups of people to recommend the punishment to such criminal organizations and its people at the helm of their affairs and we got following responses which are being reproduced unedited:

• Close such industries/companies.
• If the law does not do it, the public should compel the culprit corporations to close down.
• Punish the bosses of these erring corporations severely like life time imprisonment etc.
• Ask them to make up for the loss of environment for which they are responsible.
• Ask them to clean up the mess they have created.
• Ask  these companies to pay money to the public (as developmental funds with the government) for every thing these companies draw from the environment for their use.
• Enforce very strict scrutiny (from environmental point of view) before allowing the industries to start operating.
• Parade the top bosses in front of the people (the public) and ask them to apologise. Also ask them to repeat five times in front of the people that they would never ever commit such grave mischief.
• Take a procession of these erring corporate bosses by seating them on the donkeys through the lanes and bye-lanes of the areas polluted by them.
• Ask these companies to pay compensation to everyone who has been wrongly affected by their offenses of polluting the environment.

(If you have any more ideas, please put them in the comments).

Can Human Beings Manage the Nature?

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Human Being are Insignificant when Compared with the Nature

From time immemorial- perhaps for millions of years, human beings have been facing the onslaughts of the nature in the form of earth quakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes/twisters/whirlwinds, floods etc.

Even today, when human beings have started boasting of their several achievements, they are totally impotent and insignificant when facing the nature. Call all the Nobel prize winner scientists/authors/peace makers etc, all the top notch engineers, doctors, lawyers, economists and financial experts, the top hundred richest persons of the earth, the top most industrialists and businessmen, the top 500 companies (as decided by the Fortunes or the Forbes etc), all the presidents and prime ministers of all the countries, the popes, the shankaracharyas, the gurus, the mullahs, the imams, the dalai lamas etc of the world and pool them all together and ask them to save the humanity from the onslaughts of the nature's punishing activities listed earlier. We know the results well before even attempting to do so. They are incapable of controlling or managing the nature.

All of them have proved to be inconsequential and trivial entities when the world suffered from these earth quakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions etc recently or in the past. The same will be true for the future.

Let us accept that human beings are just about minor most players in the nature's vast game.

Who are Worse of the Two?

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Both Kill in Millions

In every country and across the world everyone is aware of one type of people easily. These people create terror among the ordinary and innocent citizens of the countries and the world. They kill them by many means that are well known by now and they keep inventing new tricks by the day. Why they do so, it is still bit confusing. I wonder and doubt if they have to settle scores with the ordinary and innocent people- perhaps it may not be their objective. Perhaps their grouse may be against the people in power who they perceive as wrong doers or whatsoever. It will be wiser to deal with them directly and perhaps a few problems might start getting solved which they bother about.

In every country and across the world, there are second types of people as well who are not easily considered as killers of the people. But they do exactly that, day in and day out, pretty easily without creating any uproar. So no one easily notices them. Who are these people? These are the people who work in every organization including the government and also independently: they pollute environment, they produce spurious medicines, they provide dirty drinking water, they adulterate food, they facilitate creation of unemployment and force people to go hungry and shelter less and they do much more such harmful things- the list is endless. The people who adversely get affected and subsequently die either immediately or over a period of time by these acts are countless, perhaps more than the people who get killed by the acts of terror.

Both types of people kill people- both kill in abundance.

Who is worse of the two types?

Can You Define Yor Own Religion?

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Just Like Being Self-employed, You Can Have Your Own Religion as Defined by You

Refer to the previous post.

A few more comments on the subject of "how sacrosanct are organized religions". It was discussed that they are as good as any other organization or corporation. As you change the organization where you worked earlier and join a new organization, everything changes for you as soon as you join a new organization. Same with organized religion. The god(s), god's representative, the commandments, rituals, rules, regulations, guide lines and current bosses (god men) are all religion specific. They are not absolutes and so not sacrosanct.

And so if you decide to be self employed and wish to be your own boss and so, you have freedom to choose another set of commandments or values and processes, similar freedom is available to you if you choose not to affiliate yourself with any particular organized religion. You can define your own sets of good values as per your studied decisions to lead your life (which is what a religion really is). The chosen values should not be harmful to anyone in the human society including yourself; rather they should be of benefit to everyone including yourself.

For example for a person who does not wish to attach himself or herself to any organized religion, he or she can be guided in his or her life by a very simple value like "Think, feel and do good to self and others". That one liner can be one's religion- religion can be that simple and yet, that much loaded.

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Are Organized Religions Really Sacrosanct?

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Everything Changes as One Converts into a New Organized Religion

In the previous post, the subject of religion and god men etc was just touched upon. Why not discuss a few more aspects of it?

In one life of a human being, he is likely to shift from one employer to other employer, migrate from one country to another country or relocate himself from one state to the other state of the same country etc. It is fairly normal.

When he changes his employer, his professional association gets cut off from his previous company and a fresh association with the new company starts. He is asked to forget the values, culture, rules and regulations and bosses of the previous employer and follow the new sets of values, culture, rules and regulations and bosses etc as prescribed by the new employer. If he has to join the new company, he better start following them.

Same thing happens when a person migrates from one state to the other state or from one country to the other country. He is asked to demonstrate his allegiance to the country or state of immigration and cut off his allegiance to the previous country or state if he wishes to become an integral part of the new country or state. He better start following all the constitutional provisions only of the new country or state.

Something similar happens for those people who convert from their existing organized religion to another organized religion. Each organized religion has its own god or gods or god's representative(s), its own sets of commandments, its own rituals, it own places of worship and its own current bosses (god men) etc. Just like when one changes his job from one organization to the other organization and he is supposed to follow everything of the new organization and forget everything of the old organization, in case of conversion from one organized religion to other organized religion, one is supposed to inherit all the new sets of things described earlier and forget the old ones.

So, is there anything sacrosanct whether it is god or gods or god's representative(s), commandments or values, rituals, guidelines, rules or regulations, places and locations of religious routines etc? Nothing seems sacrosanct.

That's why many people who get self employed and become their own bosses, they define yet new sets of values, culture, guidelines, rule and regulations for themselves.

Same way a person who does not wish to affiliate with any organized religion may define his own religion and its commandments and other things etc.

Doesn't that sound pretty logical?

Does Any Man Need to be Put on Pedestal?

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God Men Are Just One More Set of People Satisfying Your Some Needs

Lately a significant number of so called god men have been suspected to have committed various crimes- many of these crimes have been categorized as abuse of children or women etc. They might be committing other crimes too which have not been discussed with the same intensity as yet. These god men affiliate themselves with various organized religions and their outfits all over the world. Many run their own privately held outfits in comparatively small ways and small sizes.

These god men deserve to be tried as seriously as any other criminals are tried in the legal courts of law and due justice be meted out to them.

Do not put any god man on the pedestal- irrespective of his or her current degree of importance or hierarchical position in his or her outfit.

All the religious outfits whether organized or privately held are just like any other professional businesses, organizations or governments. The businesses, various kinds of other organizations and governments satisfy the numerous needs of human beings. For example, we have whole lot of companies or industries producing various products and services as needed by the people, we have hospitals and doctors etc fulfilling the health care needs of people, schools, universities and teachers satisfy people's need of acquiring knowledge, cinema and its actors meet people's entertainment needs etc.

Same way, the various religious outfits whether organized or privately run, whether big or small have been created and made to flourish like any other professional organization to satisfy those specific needs that can only be satisfied by these religious setups. They too have to recruit employees and managers at different levels with different skills to run their show and to meet people's needs. However, the people who do not have the types of needs that are catered to by these religious setups and their so called god men, do not normally visit these religious outfits or confer with their employees or managers (i.e. the god men).

So treat these setups and their employees and managers just the way you treat any other organization and their people. And just the way you will find some people committing crimes in every organization or in their private positions and will subject them on the legal trials, do the same with these so called god men too. Nothing more, nothing less.

Never put anyone on the pedestal- whosoever he or she may be.

Just treat everyone as a normal person- whosoever he or she may be, whatever position he or she may hold, howsoever rich or poor he or she may be, howsoever popular he or she may be. After all everyone is made of the same flesh and blood; no one is inferior and no one is superior. Period.

When it comes to justice, everyone is on par with each other; they are all on the same level ground.

Making Mountain out of Molehill Again?

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Art of Turning Insignificance into Significance

In an earlier commentary on these pages, an example of "why is significance made significant" was quoted.

In continuation, the same theme was repeated in action just about a few days ago too. It has become habit of particularly those human beings who have totally lost their sensitivities. Mainly many of these are the people in politics, media, business and cinema.

In this case, another popular actor of Indian Hindi movies attended a function of total insignificance (mainly the actors are invited as crowd pullers). The function was: inauguration of part of a bridge that was already inaugurated some time ago- what was the need of inaugurating it again? (Frankly, a totally avoidable wasteful affair).

Now a huge controversy with sophisticated gimmick was designed and constructed around it as to why the said actor was invited and by whom because some other faction of the organizers of this inauguration circus were opposed to inviting him because of some cockeyed reasons. The television and news media added fuel to fire by filling up their entire 24 hours of some 3 to 4 days to entice the gullible viewers or readers (the TV and newspapers just refuse to allow any other alternatives on their offerings on such occasions or opportunities), increasing their TRP ratings and amassing huge revenues from the advertisers; advertisers in turn finding a great chance to brainwash larger audience in favor of their products to increase their earnings.

After 3 to 4 days of creating this huge business of turning insignificance into significance and looting large sums of money, the interested parties phased out the hoopla and withdrew themselves cunningly. General public was left with the illusion of being fed with some very important national philosophy of great order. And to confirm that illusion, the media was still busy organizing serious debates and discussions on this subject but only as a hangover or only as a side dish and squeezing out the remaining juice.

Tons of national and natural or environmental resources of the planet earth were wasted on this insignificance. Who is bothered in any way?

How to Measure Popularity of So Called Leaders and Celebrities the Easy Way?

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Use Shoe and Flower (Instead of Elaborate Questionnaires)

Sometime ago a news item with its audio visual became pretty popular all over the world. Someone, during a well guarded press conference, had thrown a shoe at a political leader of a big country perhaps to express his disliking of the so called leader and celebrity.

These methods of showing dislike of a person in powerful position has been employed by the general public in different parts of the world a number of times in the past too. Perhaps, instead of throwing a shoe, they might have used other substitutes like a rotten egg etc.

So the agencies conducting the opinion surveys or popularity polls can take a clue from these instances and work out an easier way to carry out such surveys.

Take a life size cutout of the person whose popularity one wishes to ascertain. Place it in front of the demographically and statistically selected respondents, give each of them a shoe and a flower and ask them to throw either the shoe or the flower at the cutout of the subject.

Count the shoes thrown at the cutout as well as the flowers thrown at the cutout. Calculate the percentages. You can then infer the popularity of the so called leader or celebrity, write a long thesis and publicize it all over the place (whatever worth the popularity polls are, any way).

Why Is Insignificance Made Significant?

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Open Your Mouth with Responsibility

A few weeks ago, a popular actor of Hindi movies of India spoke something, regretting about non-selection of even a single Pakistani cricket player in the teams auctioned by a cricketing event organization of India though it's another matter that the actor had full freedom to induct Pakistani players in the team he himself owns. So, logically there was no need to open his mouth. Yet, this is an example of a compulsive talker !! But then they say everything is fair in love, war and democracy (though strictly not in the same order).

So, first the actor opened his mouth and then as a reaction, a political party opened its mouth followed by another political party etc. And then all the television channels (damn difficult to keep their count) and the entire news media opened their mouths. And all of them started speaking a lot and thereafter shouting a lot. This talking and shouting by so may mouths consumed tons of national and environmental or natural resources and tax payers' money (ultimately pocketed by these few smart businessmen- finally it's all about commerce and ruthless marketing).

This is called the art of converting insignificance into significance (and gaining lots of mileage and making easy profits).

But then this kind of indulgence is too expensive for a poor nation like India where more than 80% people live below international poverty norms.

And finally why were the multi millions of rupees (Indian currency) of tax payers' money spent in just one half day on providing a governmental security to an actor? If he is free to speak, he is free to arrange his own security too.

The corollary: the same as in the earlier blog post with this sentiment "remove the governmental security to everyone." If implemented, it might result in people opening their mouths proactively with lots of responsibility saving tons of national and natural or environmental resources of the planet earth.

Who are Responsible for These Deaths?

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Remove the Security Cover of All the Politicians

Breaking news: 39 innocent people got killed in blasts at two Moscow metro stations.

This is not the first and the singular mishap. It looks like as if it is becoming a norm.

Who are responsible for such deaths?

The obvious answer will be: apparently those who planned and executed the blasts.

But on deeper thinking, you will come to the conclusion that the primary responsibility squarely falls on those people who hold now and held in the past, material political positions in numerous nations from time to time and who, by their dim witted thinking and actions, motivated by their greed and selfishness, created and
spread disgruntlement and hurt in a large majority of human beings.

These people holding material power positions never get killed in such blasts because they are cozily protected by the machinery and the security which are heavily financed by the tax payers many of whom though fall victim to these blasts since they are not protected the same way.

Remove this cozy protection machinery and security given to these political people and then let us see how many people volunteer to become the so called leaders of the masses. Good people, those who are non-corrupt and so, fearless may still opt for it.

And then the same political people will start behaving with greater responsibilities and will think, communicate, negotiate and act more prudently.

The blast and killings might reduce significantly.