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HONOR: Fighting in battle, [the king] should not kill his enemies with weapons that are concealed, barbed, or smeared with poison or whose points blaze with fire. (see Laws of Manu Chapter VII, Verse 90).
STATE CRAFT: Use of poison, spies, spread of discord, lies and economic sabotage is justified (see Kautilya, who judged the means by the result, a result he sought for the general good of his kingdom .. or was it so? for the Kingdom or for the Kingdom?).
Such is the difference between an honorable and a pragmatic approach. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is now a term only in dictionaries. And rightly so has the usage of pragmatic as meaning "officious; meddlesome; interfering" and "dogmatic; opinionated" been forgotten and become archaic. (see pragmatic definition |Dictionary.com)
One often wonders whether there is an actual problem to begin with or is this just a global take on large scale corporate restructuring in the garb of a global crisis resulting in laying-off of workers employed by corporations who one fine morning realized that their plans of the past had all gone wrong and that they could not sustain their swelling profits to swell any longer and thus are now "being forced" to dispense with human capital like non-living matter.
STATE CRAFT: Use of poison, spies, spread of discord, lies and economic sabotage is justified (see Kautilya, who judged the means by the result, a result he sought for the general good of his kingdom .. or was it so? for the Kingdom or for the Kingdom?).
Such is the difference between an honorable and a pragmatic approach. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is now a term only in dictionaries. And rightly so has the usage of pragmatic as meaning "officious; meddlesome; interfering" and "dogmatic; opinionated" been forgotten and become archaic. (see pragmatic definition |Dictionary.com)
One often wonders whether there is an actual problem to begin with or is this just a global take on large scale corporate restructuring in the garb of a global crisis resulting in laying-off of workers employed by corporations who one fine morning realized that their plans of the past had all gone wrong and that they could not sustain their swelling profits to swell any longer and thus are now "being forced" to dispense with human capital like non-living matter.
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