The cycle of Life and Death...

Few days back, I ran into this conversation with an ol' pal.

Social Media!

Once upon a time, every newcomer in the corporate IT world used to have fun with the most widely used communication tool - Email. And the fun was 'forwards'. Remember hitting 'Crtl+F' and 'Alt+Enter' impulsively and shooting a mail with 'FWD' in subject line, perhaps coupled with some other keywords to ensure 'safety'! ;) And then, there were blokes who used to religiously send Thought-For-The-Day or Good-Morning mails as a daily ritual! There were forwards of good-luck or bad-luck striking if one forwarded the mail to x number of recipients, or fund-raising for some sick child - for every forward 1$ will be credited, or blonde-jokes, or about some social-cause, or some product promotions.. variety of subjects.. I vividly remember same images being recirculated with different stories! While few others just plain, out-rightly fake news, stories or urban-legends! And of course, there was also the spamming on personal mail-ids. Over a period of time people could sensibly judge and decide what is true and what is not!

The Wronged Notion of Justice!

We have been traditionally told and have been listening to this notion of justice, "It is better to free a hundred criminals than to punish one innocent". This was the topic of discussion over the lunch few days back, trigger to these rants :)

While I partially agree to this "philosophy" or "governing rule" when delivering justice in a perfect state of affairs. However, I have a strong objections to this 'rule' when it comes to real world, where hundreds misuse this premise and go scot-free and only the innocents are trapped because they have no mean to manipulate the system.