As long as I have a permanent and continuous personal struggle with those who claim their faith in values, and claim their representation of the principles that translate these values, but their actions highlight the opposite.
This type of character has always seen them so wicked anywhere they solve, because they wear masks that mislead people, and they perform actions that contradict what they call from the sayings of beauty and denial. They are more dangerous than the ignorant, because they cover up the virtue of virtue and practice the opposite, cultivate suspicion instead of confidence, and blurry instead of clarity.
Today, talking about values and principles is no longer intellectual or moral theory, but rather has become an existential necessity. As what keeps a person coherent in the face of life storms is not his intelligence or his skills alone, but his moral system that gives him an internal compass in the midst of noise. And when a person loses his moral reference, he becomes vulnerable to fluctuation, and loses the ability to distinguish between fixed and changing, between what is permissible and what is not permissible.
The first step to understand this system begins with a distinction between “values” and “principles”.
Values reflect what a person prefers and a priority in his behavior; It is a mirror of its personal and cultural composition. Honesty, for example, may occupy the values of a person, while the last flexibility may prefer even if it contradicts the truth. These values are formed and changed with the effect of experience, upbringing and the environment.
As for the principles, they are fixed ethical rules that are not subject to bargaining, and do not differ much from society to society. Injustice cannot be justified, and betrayal cannot be decorated under any name. Principles constitute what can be called the “red lines” that give life its meaning and preserve the human dignity, regardless of circumstances and temptations.
The moral void, resulting from the absence of values or neglecting principles, does not create only a lost person, but rather threatens the entire societal system. Whoever lives without values, lives without reference; He makes his decisions according to the interest, not right, and becomes vulnerable to fluctuations and bargains. The worst is that this moral chaos produces an infection that spreads in its vicinity, and trust collapses, relations are emptied of their meaning, and everyone becomes in a state of anthropology and suspicion.
Perhaps the most dangerous thing in this situation is its deep impact on the human soul. The apparent successes do not compensate for the absence of meaning. Whoever tolerates his principles lives an internal struggle that the prizes are not questioned and numbs are numbs. As for the collective level, the absence of principles opens the door to a chaos that does not keep anything the same; When justice turns into a deal, and the homeland is into a commodity, a person becomes strange even from himself.
Values are not always innate, but can be gained and enhanced by education and experience. How many people did not realize the meaning of trust until after he was betrayed, and how many people were estimated only when he lived the results of chaos. The important thing is that we have the courage to review the self and the ability to listen to the conscience amid the noise of interests.
Today we need what we are to restore consideration to values and principles, not as perfect slogans, but as rules for survival. And you remember that your adherence to your principles in a volatile and colorful time is in itself a championship for your conscience, but rather a declaration of an unpredictable identity, and humanity that is not satisfied with turning into a tool of personal whims or to the moods and desires of others.
