Let not your kindness jettison your existence – A HR message

If your justice ever jettisons your existence and if so, never do justice and never ever pay even an iota of attention to listen to others plea or supplication for mercy or justice.

It means, be cruel and merciless as that is how you have to be. This message may sound barbaric and rude, but that is what nature conveys through the equation of prey-predator relationship.

The beauty is that both the prey and predator knows the above law the best. None of the prey species of animals like deer, zebra or wildebeest ever seems to request or beg or prostrate before a predator for mercy or kindness. They try to escape and to escape from the predator only nature has given them several adaptations and advantages. If they fail, they have to accept that the natural law and justice are on the other side.

Similarly none of the predators are kind towards their prey species. Because of the above, one should not assume that the predators are not kind. They too carry lot of kindness, love, care and affection with them to their young ones and also towards other members of their group. The question is why an animal that has lot of love and kindness towards its own young ones and clan is so cruel and kindles towards its prey animals? If they ever become kind, the same kindness would jettison their very existence.

They cannot afford to be kind and merciful towards their prey animals. That does not mean they are cruel. Law of nature never defines so. The justice and justifications of nature are always relative and what is right to my existence is only right to me, however bad it might be to others.

The advice and suggestion is not against being kind and merciful. But remember your gesture should always support your physical and psychological existence first and only then rest should follow.

Also, the people who plead for justice and mercy must re-invent the enormous strength and capability the nature has given to them to win all odds and injustices. If such strength is not understood, only helplessness has to be depended upon to help oneself.

The message of nature should not be understood indiscriminately. Be kindles does not mean be cruel. What it means is that be kind to you first and then be kind to others.

Sacrifice can only breed greed, weakness and hopelessness. Imagine, the predator that had not taken its meal due to ‘self sacrifice’ for the sake of its young ones had never been so successful in guarding, nursing and rearing the future generation. Only the strong parents can up bring the best progenies.

The readers of the article should not run into either crazy or quixotic state. The message has to be understood in the right dimension, sprit and reference.

Dr S Ranganathan