Vertigo,
My thinking is clear. Before passing judgement, I put myself in the place of the victim..... and then proceed to think from there. Recently there was a debate about migrants influx into Germany. Rights, wrong, and logic aside, I put myself in the place of the father of Alain Kurdi, who fled fighting from his place in Syria, then had to flee another place in Syria, then to Turkey. He was looking for a safe/better life for his family. What would I do in his place? We need to stop rationalizing, and if we were to experience the same as the victim of Dadri, or the courage of the person speaking against the might or brute force of majority, our thinking would be different. A person no less than the President of India is raising his concern. Raghuram Rajan, has spoken. So will he be branded a 'sickular'? Does he not as an Indian citizen has the right to speak on matter that impacts the country? Subramaniam Swami has already called for his dismissal. So what next? Speak as per your conscience, and be branded an 'Anti-national'? or a 'Paki' or termed 'sickular' or whatever? Or do we want to be a country who has only one right thought or way of thinking, and dissidence wrong? I repeat, it happens in Saudi, N.Korea, Syria etc. And not in a democracy.... The govt. of the day will be
wise to heed warning of calls from people who have courage to speak out, instead of being arrogant and castigating them....