Art of the day:~
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Auuu. Took about 18 hours to finish this one. Spent most of the time trying to pick the right colour. The colour scheme was based on a sparrow, but my bro said it looked dull. Just doodled randomly with the background.
Date: 24 July 2007
Finished "Great Elephant" by Alan
Scholefield, or rather the Reader Digest condensed version. It's a
fictional story set in the historical background of Zululand (South
Africa) under the rule of
Shaka.
The story describes much of Shaka's iron fisted rule.
Anyway, the part that got me thinking was where a crime
had been committed and brought forward to Shaka. Knowing that the
criminal was his half-brother, Shaka allowed another person to take the
blame who was promptly executed. Later, Shaka explained that he did so
because executing his half brother would cause distress among the
people, while the death of a "nobody" is inconsequential.
While this situation is definitely wrong in our current
view, it can be argued that Shaka did so for the greater good (the peace
of his people against the justice of one). This also made me think about
the comparative worth (if there is any) of a human being. As Abraham
Lincoln said, "All men are created equal", and thus they have equal
rights and privileges. But what about worth?
A man is only worthy after he had proven himself. In
"Starship Troopers", a citizen can only vote after he/she have served in
the Federal Service. In this case, the citizen have been proven to be
worthy to vote.
But can a human be judged by how worthy he is?
Discriminating between worthy and worthless might lead to a eugenics
type of mentality, but there are many in this world who gets a lot while
doing nothing and even more who does a lot but gets close to nothing...
Justice? It's a man-made word.
*reminder- the above are just my thoughts and not necessarily my opinion*