Reason

The best gift God gave man was the ability to reason. Reasoning is what sets mankind apart from all other creatures. reasoning is what sets apart the thinking man from the ordinary. It is the viewing-glass through which one's intellectual credibility is assessed.

   This although is a quality supposed to be possessed by all of mankind, the disparity among the levels at which various people use/show signs of this virtue, is rather disturbing to note. One often hears that one's life is a product of all the choices one has made. At every moment of our life, the decisions that we take, affect our lives in the most bizarre and unforeseen ways. Good decisions are not always the most well-informed ones, but, are the most well-thought-out ones. 

  The power to reason, at the pinnacle of it's usage, negates the requirement of any pre-written doctrine/set of rules for human conduct/behaviour. The extent to which a person can reason has an infinite bearing on the moral stands a person takes up. It is no doubt influenced by pre-taught values on nationalistic,religious or familial grounds. But to look beyond the fed notions and to break open the shackles of stereotypes and stigmas with mental clarity, is something that requires strength and intelligence, in their most potent forms. 

  Almost all of the discriminatory issues that human history has witnessed, can be attributed to lack of reason and a whimsical and meaningless devotion to a ready-fed notion that was baseless. It is appalling to see the huge masses these notions command. The only possible explanation I can come up with is that intelligence probably isn't a virtue possessed by the majority of the human race. In this context, i refer solely to the intelligence of weighing facts and reasoning situations.

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