If laws and rules bring despair…
The essence of democracy is to have laws, rules and procedures etc that bring happiness to the majority of people. Our rulers, however, think otherwise. While explaining the Yunus issue to our foreign friends, one senior minister resorted to falsity. Another, while embarking on her mission of mercy to bring solace to our brethren ejected out of Libya, said with a straight face that no matter how many people lose their joy and happiness, the law must prevail. The question therefore is: If a law or a rule brings despair, grief, sorrow (opposite of joy/happiness) to the vast majority of the people (80% ++ if the opinion polls are to be believed), then, if we profess to be a democratic state, should not that particular law, go, be dumped and scrapped instead of the person affected by it?
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