It comes down to a choice between two evils and one has to ask, “which is the greater”? On the one hand it is immoral to fight, to become a part and the cause of death and destruction; on the other hand, it is a greater moral wrong to ignore what is happening. I have come to the conclusion that bad as such action is, it is sometimes far worse if we do nothing.

May be a lot of life is shaped by the above kind of choices. Often we have to choose between evils, always hoping that we choose the lesser one. It’s a high price to pay, but the alternative of ignoring what is happening, by not becoming involved, by shutting our eyes to the fact that there are degrees of evil, some worse than others, is abandonment of everything that is good because we allow the greater evil to win. Such moral issues are complex. Often, unbeknownst, we do the wrong thing believing it is right. I’ve come to understand that life will never be clean and clear cut and that there is often no choice between black and white and that the choice lies too many times within the grey area. It makes me anguished to think of the choices that are open to us. I guess no-one likes to face the fact that sometimes an immoral act is the only right thing to be done and that the world is not what it seems, it is not just black and white!

I believe there are no limits for man in the world. He can see forever and he will achieve more than can ever be believe and yet while he will create, the darkness that hides in every man will destroy and matters of the spirit will be pushed aside in his rush to achieve. His learning will continue to be hard and deadly. There is something ignoble about mankind. Such an ugly notion, but I fear man's savagery and greed and his capacity to abuse. When you read Euripides, Menander and Theophrastus, Sophocles and Oedipus one realises how little mankind has changed in the intervening years. Human problems are complex but all the trouble in the world is human trouble. All the cruel and malicious indifference confronted has a human face and soul. We are at best indifferent and at worst wantonly cruel. We are all still savages at heart.

I am fascinated with this world of ours and watch its events with some interest. I often ask myself – why is it we never learn from past mistakes? Is it because our lives are of such short duration, or is it because we deliberately shut our minds from what we know?