Lack of Right Thinking

Lack of Right Thinking Once, a riot broke out in a certain town between members of two communities. In this riot, members of one community faced large-scale loss. Their economy was laid to ruins. I happened to meet a man from this town who belonged to this community. I asked him why the riot had taken place. He said that a procession of members from the other community had entered the locality inhabited by members of his community and there they began raising slogans against this community. On this, residents of the locality got agitated. Some youths among them, he said, then ‘took one step’ as one of them explained. I asked him what that step was. He explained that they had thrown some hand bombs on the procession. This enraged the people in the procession so much that they began to indulge in violence. I asked the man what the slogan was, reacting to which those youths had taken that step. He explained that the sloganeers had called for the locality to be emptied of its inhabitants. During our conversation, the man claimed that it was necessary to give a reply to this sort of provocative plot. I replied to him saying that he should rather call it an imaginary plot that could never turn into a reality. I asked the man if, after the sloganeering and the rioting, his locality had been emptied of its inhabitants. Enthusiastically, he replied, ‘Certainly not!’, adding that the people of his community still remained there. On this, I remarked