The Moral Vision
Working Together
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How then can people live and work together? How,
with seemingly irreconcilable differences between
individuals, can society be welded into a cohesive
whole? There is only one-way: people must bury
their differences and agree to disagree. But this can
happen only if people react coolly and rationally in
difficult situations where relations are strained and
there seems no way out of the dilemma. It can
happen only if people are fully aware of their
responsibilities towards others, as individuals, and
towards their community as a whole.
This may seem to be asking the impossible. But this
is not so. Every individual does these things in the
most natural way within his own domestic circle. In
quite normal families, differences of opinion occur
almost every day, but the bonds of love and kinship
prevail and grievances are all finally buried. It is in
this way that a family holds together. Every home is
a practical example of people agreeing to disagree.
This spirit of give and take, which is a matter of
instinct in a family, is something which can emerge
in a community only through conscious effort on
the part of its members. While it is all emotional
