Everyone would agree that the first principle of co-existing peacefully as a society is “First, harm no one” which is the Hippocratic Oath that all Medical Practitioners have to take and also the first tenet of Yoga – “Ahimsa”, but why restrict it only to Medical Practitioners and Yoga Practitioners? Does this not apply to all? It does, but how many choose to follow it? The ones who do are declared saints/Mahatma and are revered but the principle is not embraced, resulting in a broken society/world wherein we know what to do but we simply won’t.
Looking at the current state of affairs wherein the entire world is in war with each other whether economic or otherwise, with a world leader moving around threatening sanctions in order to reconcile warring parties and expecting to win a Nobel Prize for it, I think we have really lost the plot and have to admit that our collective intelligence to peacefully co-exist has failed. So either each one of us sincerely embraces this simple principle of Ahimsa or we may have to finally hand over the reins to Artificial Intelligence since ours isn’t working….
Bodhisattva 