The expression law of the jungle is often used to describe the unjust, chaotic world of violence where the weak perish and the stronger survive and thrive. It particularly refers to what happens in the wild, every animal has to kill something smaller than itself to survive. My favorite contemporary Indian author
Devdutt Pattnaik uses the Sanskrit phrase matsya nayaya to describe this, his illustration makes the concept a lot more clear to understand. In human society this phrase is used mostly pejoratively to mean absence of law from the society. Yet recent event forces one to question if it at all we can condemn it anymore.
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Danish
12:00 AM
