Ethical Wills (a reply)

In reply to an article posted “May 30, 2007 by Jacquelyn”

The basic idea of an ethical will is “”in addition to leaving material possessions in a will or trust, we leave for those in future generations a statement of our ethical values.”"
Now a very core idea is undermined here that ethics are either taught by culture or religion or family or a professional body and (excluding the professional body) non of the above gives us a wwritten deed to follow or adhere to. Instead they present the ethical and moral values in a fashion of acts, behaviours, statements and sologons etc.

The what i m trying to say here gets better if we review a simple case study of 5 Monkeys. It goes as follow;
*lock 5 monkeys in a steel cage.
*place a ladder in the middle and on top of which place a sack of bananas AND link the steek ladder with a power line.
*now observe
(hehe .. if u go on doing such a thing u would probably be swarmed by animal rights members and making a monkey out of your own self so saving you all the troubles i’ll let you know the end result ^_^ charms)
*1 of the monkeys will climb the ladder and will be struck by current and the rest are washed by a power hose under neath.
*now the 2nd monkey will try to climb the ladder and gets struck and rest gets washed.
*now the 3rd .. reapeat the same procedure.
*one by one they all gets a taste of current and washing.
*observe now that if any one of the monkeys try to mount the ladder the rest will stop him and beat him so that he doesnt climb up and they are spared of washing.
*they do it repeatedly and it becomes a custom among them that if one try to climb up beat him.
(here’s the cheeky part)
*now remove the power supply and the water hose.
*and also remove 1 of the old monkeys and add a fresh monkey.
*now a fresh monkey wont resist a sack a bananas would he ..!!
*he tries to climb and all others beat him, he tries again and gets beaten cold.
*one by replace all the old monkeys and introduce new monkeys.
*even now if 1 tries to climb the ladder with no power supply or the power hose in sight he gets beaten by the remaining monkeys.
*WHY ..?
because in culture you dont have a WHY, you just do things because they are being done this way for ages, and ethics are a fundamental part of a societies culture.

Despite the story of 5 monkeys there are many other logical statements that has a powerfull statement against writting ethical wills, list of them is as follows;
1. it will create demotivation in the reader, because when we write on such a subjective issue it is more or less an idiological writting and the reader failing to observe the same around him (in practical) will get demotivated such an instrument.
2. it is better to practice the same (ethics) rather than to write it down and consider that our responsibility is over and lay the burdon of observing on the later generation.
3. ethics are incorporated by repeated practice and not just by a deed.
4. people originate from different backgrounds and have different moral and ethical values hence a written deed of conflicts is generated.
5. it is never right to assume that the person writting the ethical will is perseaving every thing with a sane and biased free mind, hence leaving nothing but churned facts and bad ethical practices for the later to come.
6. its a waste of paper.
7. and ink.
8. and leasure time.
9. a bad person will have bad ethics and hence preserving them in writting is a bad gift for the generation to come.
10. not every one is a role model, hence we can not just follow any one’s foot steps we need to choose.

And why create our own ethical standards when we have GOD taking care of this for us ..? GOD has sent Holy Books and Messengers (as) and Noble Men to guide us through this ethics thing, because religion is what? A simple way of leading our lives! why make it difficult by incorporating our standards and wills in it.

For the end note I would just say ‘will’ is a wish that we wanted to fulfill in our life but couldnt .. it is a subjective issue and do we really want the change in time (future generation) to fulfill our short commings an not move ahead.

ACT NOW ON WHAT YOU BELEIVE IN.