Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 58
57 4 The Animal Kingdom As far as the approach of philosophers is concerned, some among them believe that the creation of the universe does not require a Creator. They argue that it is an ongoing automatic, blind, evolutionary process. On this basis they obviously try to understand and tackle human nature with the same blind principle. Such Philosophers propose that there should be no special moral and ethical restrictions on man and that he should be as free to shape his life as animals are. In this scenario we do not find any role for an outside agency like God to legislate for man as a Supreme Lawgiver. In their opinion, the concept of justice is born merely out of the exercise of the human intellect which, in relation to its long chain of human experiences from time immemorial, gradually began to deduce rules and regulations for human society as it developed. So they began to legislate, among other things, in matters relating to justice too. The religious doctrine is in direct clash with this secular social theory. Religion teaches us that the faculty of discretion is granted to man by God with a specific purpose—to decide whether he should allow himself to follow his instinctive desires like animals, or whether he should refrain from following a course of action in certain situations.