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How Will We Be Judged?
To understand how we will be ‘judged’, it is
important to understand that human actions fall
into one of two categories. The first comprises
of matters in which no ‘moral’ choice has to be
made. These are purely accidental happenings
whose outcome, whether good or bad, cannot
be judged from a moral standpoint because they
contained no ‘purposeful’ element. The second
category is very different in nature because it
covers a wide and complex range of actions—
the ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ of which have to be
scrupulously and purposefully considered before
being carried out. This is known as the ‘ethical
category’.
To understand the difference between the two
let us take the example of a stone balanced
precariously on the branch of a tree. If you walk
under it, it falls and hits you, subsequently you
find yourself badly injured. Do you strike the
tree and bear a grudge against it? Of course not!
But suppose a man picks up a stone, throws it
