Ideals or survival instinct?
Mamata Banerjee ended her 25 day long fast at the stroke of midnight on Thursday. After that, she was promptly admitted into the ICU of a private hospital in Kolkata, where she is on respiratory support and is being administered intravenous fluids to treat her dehydration, hypoglycaeamia and other nutritional disorders.
Now I do not mean to imply, like CPI-M leader Nilotpal Basu did, that Mamata Banerjee’s fast was just an “outlandish drama” or that Mamata had no ideological basis in going on a fast. These issues are up for debate.
But I wonder if a person on a prolonged fast, who is all but unconscious and on life support systems, takes a decision to end the fast based on his/her political or moral ideals or is it just the primal instinct to survive that prompts him/her to end the fast!!
Any ideas?
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Primal instincts and basic needs are often stronger than anthing else. My point of view is that only the true love is stronger than the primal instincts. Any other ideology is just relative.
Wayne Rooney>> You’re right. I don’t know about true love, but the instinct to survive trumps things like ideals. Generally speaking, it’s what life does! … it continues to exist!
The reason she gave to end the fast, “We Indians respect the advice of elders”, or some such, reeked of BS.
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