Comments on: Between a rock and a hard place http://www.srijanfoundation.org/areas-of-interest-to-srijan-foundation/agriculture/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/ Official blog of Srijan Foundation Trust Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:43:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rahul Dewan http://www.srijanfoundation.org/areas-of-interest-to-srijan-foundation/agriculture/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Rahul Dewan Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:56:45 +0000 http://srijanfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-52 It's rather obnoxious (and a reflection of your own shallow moral character) to call Sainath names. He is an hounourable man, and has proved so with his years of work in the poorest and most devastated regions of India - not many people - and certainly not yourself - have demonstrated any such competence or dedication, and therefore have no moral right, to make such scathing remarks against him and his thought process. A more gentlemanly way would be to disagree with a person of such repute and simply write about how you disagree with him, including engaging him in a discussion (writing in the manner you did against Sainath, and posting comments on other blogs about this, seems like hidden agenda to bring hits to your own blog, and in the process earn some publicity in the blogging community). Meanwhile, you mentioned: "It should also kept in mind that it is immoral to tax some to make job for others." Wow! Excellent thought. It would certainly be immoral to "impose" anything on anyone. However, unfortunately, we do not live in such an evolved society which would share part of its earning (say 10%) voluntarily with society (I'm faily certain certain you do not belong to this evolved category, as it shows in the use of the choicest abuses). In a world where the rich are getting subsidised at the cost of the children of a lesser God (read the not so rich, and, poor) paying huge environmental costs and creation of life-threatening situations for them, where even basic survival is theatened, is not the ideal world they or any of us bargained for. Sainath, in that sense, is a voice among many, of bringing some sanity and policy change, to help us as a civilization evolve and prevent us from self-destruction. It’s rather obnoxious (and a reflection of your own shallow moral character) to call Sainath names. He is an hounourable man, and has proved so with his years of work in the poorest and most devastated regions of India – not many people – and certainly not yourself – have demonstrated any such competence or dedication, and therefore have no moral right, to make such scathing remarks against him and his thought process.

A more gentlemanly way would be to disagree with a person of such repute and simply write about how you disagree with him, including engaging him in a discussion (writing in the manner you did against Sainath, and posting comments on other blogs about this, seems like hidden agenda to bring hits to your own blog, and in the process earn some publicity in the blogging community).

Meanwhile, you mentioned:
“It should also kept in mind that it is immoral to tax some to make job for others.”

Wow! Excellent thought. It would certainly be immoral to “impose” anything on anyone.

However, unfortunately, we do not live in such an evolved society which would share part of its earning (say 10%) voluntarily with society (I’m faily certain certain you do not belong to this evolved category, as it shows in the use of the choicest abuses).

In a world where the rich are getting subsidised at the cost of the children of a lesser God (read the not so rich, and, poor) paying huge environmental costs and creation of life-threatening situations for them, where even basic survival is theatened, is not the ideal world they or any of us bargained for.

Sainath, in that sense, is a voice among many, of bringing some sanity and policy change, to help us as a civilization evolve and prevent us from self-destruction.

]]> By: Shanu http://www.srijanfoundation.org/areas-of-interest-to-srijan-foundation/agriculture/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Shanu Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:43:20 +0000 http://srijanfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-51 Sainath seems to be another power hungry guy,another Ellsworth Monkton Toohey.This is my blog post on Sainath relating to NREGA. http://memorymaniac.blogspot.com/2008/06/lets-create-unemployment.html Sainath seems to be another power hungry guy,another Ellsworth Monkton Toohey.This is my blog post on Sainath relating to NREGA.

http://memorymaniac.blogspot.com/2008/06/lets-create-unemployment.html

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