Hmm...

Would you do the right thing if you could?

Would you do the right thing if you should?

Would you do the right thing if you wanted to?

Would you do the right thing even if it feels as if your heart is being torn away?

Would you do the right thing?

Hmm...

I guess my answer to the above questions is a simple,"I don't know" in most cases. If someone were to ask me those questions, that would probably the way that I would answer them(if I were feeling honest that day! haha!)

Perhaps somethings are more or less certain. Certain in a way that that's the way things would turn out most of the time. Take for example, throwing you litter in the bin. Most people do it. Because it is "right". But you don't HAVE to do it. Now let's exagerate the scenario a little. If there's only one bin, and you have to step through mud and shit to throw your rubbish.(and none of that Hong Soon style throw rubbish from a far thing) Would you still do it?

What happens if the situation you are faced with is something infinitely more important than throwing your rubbish. Like sacrificing yourself to save the world or something.

It'd be easy to say that,"Oh, of course I would save the world. My life is incomparable to that of billions of people!" I mean, it seems the right thing to do, logically and morally speaking. But when the time comes, will you still be the person you think you are?

If at that point you choose not to save the world (probably cos you can't bear to part with someone or something), then what you have said would be false. Are you a liar then? Maybe. Or maybe you are just not the person you think you are. Then it would be pointless to ask the question of whether you would save the world.

Alternatively, if you were to choose to save the world. Great! You live up to your word. But then it would also be pointless to ask the question of whether you would do the right thing in the first place as well. Because regardless of what you choose to say before, the fact is you did choose to save the world. The confirmation of your character comes at the moment when you choose to sacrifice yourself. That's the point you know for sure. That's the point when you can say,"Yes! I chose to save the world!" Then again what's the point? You are already dead.

Perhaps there are somethings you can know for sure. I don't know. One thing I do know is that you have to keep questioning, keep asking,"what's the point?".(See, I'm contradicting myself) You may or may not have an answer. At the end of the day, it may not even be about "what's the point" or "will you or will you not".

Talking about questioning (just a short digression), is it good to be always questioning? I don't know if I had mentioned anything about balance before in my previous blogs. But wouldn't excessive questioning be tipping the balance? Are there somethings which you don't question?

Now back to the main topic. Perhaps the reason why people ask why is to seek some sort of confirmation. To know that at least there is such a possibility. The answer to the question being asked would serve to be some sort of confirmation. A negative answer might drive the person questioning to do some things or inquire further. A positive answer might serve as a form of foundation or hard ground to lay the person's heart at rest.

Questions and answers. Then more questions and more answers. Godel's theorem states that within a finite set, no truth can be fully captured.( I hope I quoted correctly) I doubt I will ever find answers to all of them. I hope to find the answers to at least some of them.

Hmm... (I put the "hmm..." here because 1) I am really "hmm"-ing. 2) I like abit of symmetry in my blogs. Shit now i gotta "hmm..." again to make things symmetrical!)

Hmm...