In short, parade heroes , not heroics, to motivate other people to turn heroes. .
And parade villainy, not villains, to help people find what they should not be doing.
Unfortunately, in an age of television, villains draw crowds while no one cares to remember their villainy beyond 15 seconds of 'Breaking News."
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I would often find myself behaving as if God had sent me on this
planet only to prepare and submit
detailed character certificates of fellow earthlings - as
many as I could, working 24/7 X 365, every year of my life.
Fortunately, my mother - who had never described anyone as
'bad' - made the job easier for me. This was her advice to me - and I have
generally tried to follow it in letter
and spirit :
When talking about the mistakes,shortcoming or sins of
someone, remember that you are required
to talk only about the specific mistake, the specific shortcoming or the
specific sin of the person concerned, and not about the person at all - making him/her feel that the action was a
mere exception to his normal ways.
But when you are to
talk about achievements, strengths and virtues of someone, go the
other round, and talk more about the person behind such a good deed - making
him/her feel this is the way he is always expected to conduct himself.
When talking about good
deeds, speak more about the
person behind the deed than about the deed itself .
When you have to talk
about some bad action or quality of someone, talk only about the action and the
quality.
Be liberal with silence,When you talk about someone's
mistakes or sins, talk only about the mistake or the sin - and never about the
person.
Talk about things not persons when discussing evil in this world. But
good things that happen, bring the
person behind it to be garlanded with your words on the stage.
This is because this world
has more to gain by the example
of heroes than it has less to lose by
not knowing about villains. People behind good deeds inspire other people while
its not villains but their villainy
which other people can learn from
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