Unfair world!!

It’s an unfair world, Shrenik. I will not get sucked into this quagmire of emotions of love and friendship. I renounce all my friends for acquaintances.

Shrenik’s Friend

On 3rd of february 2006 Shrenik wrote,

My friend explains that the chances that a person likes you as much as you like him are very dim. Either it is less, in which case you stand to loose or it is more, in which case your friend stands to loose.
(i.e if you consider love as a commodity which can be received or given. Die hard fans of Yash Chopra’s brand of love can save their time by not reading this)

It is unfair but something which everyone has to grapple with. I put my thinking cap to analyze the problem he had proposed. After much thought, I could chart out a solution to it.

Think about a man living in Stone Age; wearing leaves around his waste. He must have thought to himself, will there ever be a time when there will be something which will prevent people from wrongdoing like killing raping or even snatching food. As time passed and men got more civilized, it gave rise to something called as law. What the law did was that, it raised the cost of perpetuating a crime over the benefits the perpetuator would derive out of it. In other words law made, committing a crime unappealing by attaching a fine in the form of imprisonment with it.

Similarly, think about a man living in medieval ages, a time in which there was gross inequality in distribution of wealth. A dhoti clad farmer in Punjab must have thought to himself, will there be a time when I will be empowered to pull myself out of this drudgery of poverty. As time passed and men became even more civilized, through tools of democracy and sciences of capitalism and socialism, he has nearly scaled that barrier.

Now, try to understand the reason why I have mentioned the above two examples. Both the examples are pointing towards one united goal, equity. If you commit a crime, you have to pay the penalty for it. If you are not privileged enough to be wealthy, the system should facilitate that you have an equal opportunity to become one.

Try and find a solution which will bring equity to all the concerned parties in my friend’s case. Cannot find! Probably because there is NO SOLUTION to it! It’s a game which god subjected us out of his insecurity. Otherwise why would anyone remember him?

Just when I thought that there is no solution to it, I got a very futuristic idea. To explain it let me deviate a bit further. Science, if the pace at which it is advancing, I think in the next 100 years we would all become immortals. In its course it has explained something called as a DNA. It holds characteristics of a person.

Now imagine if a DNA can be used to check how much two people like each other. For example if person A likes person B with affinity of 9 on a scale of 10 and if B also likes A with affinity 9 then BANG, we have found the perfect match. Only if they have an equal or acceptable amount of differences in their affinity levels, should they proceed and share love. Else they can do it at their own peril.

Will this make the world a better place, or it is better with the slight imperfection it has. Hmmm….can’t say.