Mathematics is perhaps the purest form of logic we can relate to.you add two and two to get four.but does this logic work for more tricky or sensitive issues?Who gets to decide who is right?
The idea of disagreeing on issues of governance, philosophy,or life itself is not something new. History books and scriptures are full of stories of individuals or societies going against the prescribed authority of the time. For the sake of brevity, let’s for the time being skip the merits of those disagreements.
Defining dissent
But, what seems to be new is the word ‘dissent’ popping up on your mobile and computer screens when we surf the internet for news , and even more if that space happens to be social media. Dissent ,which the Cambridge dictionary defines as ‘to agree with other people about something’, has become a buzzword of sorts and it would not surprise us if it indeed ends up becoming a word of the year! One group dissenting with the decision of the other, the left – wing dissenting with the ideas of right -wing , all this makes one ponder, Who decides who is correct? As an individual man, spirit soul,we observe the phenomenal world around us, gather information through various senses, and finally try to make sense of this information using our mind and intelligence which in turn relies on logic and past experience. From the sound of it, this system of knowledge gathering seems pretty much satisfactory where an individual is in control of what he wishes to know,how he authenticates the information, and what he does with it. Except for one small glitch- we have not factored in the ability or rather the inability of our senses to acquire factual information.
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