Social and Commercial Conflicts Cause Cruelties to Millions & Cost Trillions
T actfulness A dvances L earning & L eadership & C ures C onflicts “This writeup lacks a sense of proportion. It unfairly generalises haphazard, scattered happenings.” “It runs down our civilisation and insults a majority of well-behaving people.” “It paints usual differences among democratic citizens as conflicts and unreasonably damns all respectable folks as ‘cruel’. In fact, it attempts to equate humans to wild animals and…..” These were the reactions of some local erudite people, high level executives and social ‘leaders,’ who attended an informal meeting that was arranged to sound them out about the first draft of this blog. We explained to them that according to the Cambridge Dictionary the word ‘cruel’ means: "extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals, with an example of usage that reads, “Don't tease him about his weight - it's cruel.” We tried in vain to bring to their notice that ‘civilised’ people always have virtues of...