Tolerance – The basis of humanity

When we performed science experiments in our school or college, we learnt it’s impossible to get the ideal result in the lab. The reason being the losses due to various factors in real life scenario.

While we all appreciate and understand the basis of this, we do not apply this to humanity in general. We are tuned to apply this learning to all inanimate objects like an electric circuit for example.

It isn’t very rare that we talk about corruption in government and polity in general. We all have been there and play a higher moral ground and also make severe criticism of the people holding important positions or the entire government in general.

Two things struck me during a short WhatsApp conversation with my school buddies and wanted to capture it before it evaporates.

Firstly, it makes no sense at all whatsoever that we as people take such moral stand when most of us cannot claim to be a yogi ourselves. one may argue that it’s democracy and expressing opinion is our fundamental right. As I’ve heard earlier, the real test is what a person chooses to do when he is in a position to take advantage. Would he/she still do the same that would be expected of others? Would I? Would You? Something to ponder about.

Secondly, back to my science experiment analogy, life is real and certainly far from ideal. Humanity as such has been corrupt from the word go. There’s an evil in us deep down which needs to be managed or controlled. That’s what I would like to refer here as the tolerance or the losses of our experiments in school.

As human while we have the gift of engineering and striving for improvements all the time, it’s important to remind ourselves that we can minimise the losses and keep the tolerance to the lowest but never get it to a not.