Morality or aspiration?on December 10, 2019The famous ‘trolley problem’ bears witness to the fact that it is not always easy to tell what our moral duties are in a given situation. I think there is truth in this because I have seen people trapped in figuring out what they are required to do. Take the example of a person (hereafter […]
Seven basic valueson December 6, 2019Do you ever wonder what gives you happiness? Maybe you do and maybe you do not. Either way, you take a short pause, think a little, and like John Steinbeck’s American dreamer instantly think: wealth. After all, in the presence of limited resources, what brings us many things we need or desire is money. Take […]
May justice be done!on December 2, 2019One of the relentlessly awaited and hankered occurrences in the matrimonial timeline of the South Asian couples is the birth of a child, particularly a boy. The male child is the apple of the eye, the beacon of hope and silver lining in the cloud that is anticipated to bring glad tidings like pride to […]
Moral Imperativeson November 8, 2019You have probably heard it somewhere or read it in a self-help book, “We are the authors of our lives.” If you were a literalist, you probably thought it meant having control and check over one’s life. However, if you were a Kantian like me, you thought, “We are the authors of our lives as […]
Our canvass of lawon October 29, 2019When we paint law on our layman canvass, we either shade it green–something that should be promoted and celebrated–or red–something that should be demoted and discredited. This green/red dichotomy means that our understanding of the law is bound up with our everyday experience of law between benefit and harm. For those who benefited from the […]
Rights-ethic v Care-ethicon October 14, 2019It gives me goose-bumps to imagine that science and reason have faced far few challenges in understanding kinetic energy and artificial intelligence than psychologists working out the true nature of men and women. Carol Gilligan -an American psychologist- after great toil informs us that men are guided by ethic of rights whilst women are guided […]
Our dignityon October 9, 2019“The dignity of a man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable. No person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence.” This is Article 14 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973. It is the protective umbrella that guards our community against discriminatory practices, harm […]