My life, my dominion

Are we all innocent?

Or are we all guilty?

Isn't it easy to throw such one liners heh.

But really, the notion of innocent until proven guilty struck me some time ago basically because I was in a whole lot of trouble. So i began to think about how this related to me.

All the wrongs that we commit. How many of them are pre meditated? Many a time, the "wrong" could have been a simple mistake due to to carelessness. Or perhaps, it was a wrong of convenience, where at the point of time it was the only thing that could have been done. And then there are times where the wrongs that we did are purely unintentional. Where all we did was do as we were told or do what we thought was "right" and we end up being burned at the stake.

Sure, there the scum of society who are the schemers who plot the downfall of good folk like you and me. And perhaps we might even see ourselves in those shoes but really, we aren't that bad, we don't deliberately do wrong. Or do we, is it possible that all our choices that lead to "trouble" are all carefully thoght out concepts that eventually end in execution of the dastardly deed?

Think carefully. Let me bring to you a new concept. Are we all really as innocent as we would like to think? We all have free choice. The freedom to think as we please and to choose the course of action that we pick. In fact, no one can argue that the decisions we make will directly affect our actions. Therefore, our conciousness is played out in our actions. Which can only mean one thing. By our actions we display our deepest intent.

So are we really innocent until proven guilty or is it the other way round?
Is there really a degree to killing? Be it murder or self defense, it still involves the ending of a life, a life that belonged to someone else.
And how about theft, no matter how small or large the amount stolen, how can the weight of the wrong doing be weighed by the amount? Is stealing 10 from a kid any different from embezzling millions? It's still wrong, and the effect might be totally different, the millions could have just lined someone elses bulging pockets while the 10 dollars may have been all the kid had for a month. We never really know. But what we do know but never admit is that our actions are all concious decisions that act upon whatever stimulus that exists.

So in actual fact, we are guilty until proven innocent. When accused of something, there must have been some past action that prompted to suspect. When blamed for something small, one cannot deny because one did do something wrong, one did it in full knowledge and with premeditated steps, one cannot run away from that fact.

We are all guilty. Guilty from birth till the day we die. We are guilty.