The Relativistic Life

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The life which we live is a a spectrum of relativism; where one thing/situation could be good here and now and becomes bad there and then. It is to say that there often could be two options for a particular situation.

Hence, in judging in the heat of the moment, one must consider these relativistic tendencies and apply practical wisdom in not throwing entirely the baby while trying to discard the bathwater.

There's nothing entirely bad, just as there's nothing entirely good. The good/bad of it depends on how it presents at the moment it affects us. The rain is good this time and could be bad the other, so with the sun. But to surmise that the rain/sun is entirely bad could be wrong.

Taking another instance, but looking from the human illustration. Let's say there's a man named Nwaka, who's married and living with his family. For all that has been known about Mr Nwaka, he's a good man, keeping faithfully to the demands of wife and children. Then suddenly, the bubble burst.

Mr Nwaka was accused of been caught in a fling of extramarital affairs. And this was true! 

The reactions that trailed was to be the expectation from many. The news went around of how Mr Nwaka has been an irresponsible and unfaithful man; and this appellation, for its widespread, became just suddenly the man's description.

Truth be told, the instance of the act Mr Nwaka was caught in at that moment portrayed an irresponsibility of unfaithfulness. But then, should the failure of that moment be the yardstick to now wear him a new description? It could be right for the mindset of generalization, but is it truly right.

The relativism of life presents the possibility of this and that. And the critical import it reflects is for judgement to be based verily on this act and that act. Indeed it would be wrong to surmise Nwaka's marital profile by the very moment of his failure.

Instructively, it is critical to circumstances momentously, giving credit or censuring (as the case may be) just as they happen. For seeking to generalize and present an idea based on a particular instance could be fatally wrong.

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