Exclusion Principle
Exclusion Principle states thus: in view of the nature of a life form being representative every advantage it seeks is for the entire species. It being intrinsic part of any transaction excludes what modes it may adopt in furtherance of its end.
Thus ideologies and beliefs of man are to be seen as superficial labels that do not wear well. An example of which we can see in the way we ushered in the nuclear age.
It was thought a nuclear bomb would bring peace sooner at a time much of the world was in a state of war. The scientists who were capable of making a nuclear bomb were by no means hawks; many of them who guided the Manhattan Project were people with deep humanitarian principles and who believed that Science should serve mankind. Niels Bohr as early as 1950 addressed the nascent UN that the Soviets ought to be taken into confidence and they are privy to the nuclear technology. He wanted above all openness but Winston Churchill rejected his idea as a folly: he even wanted the scientist to be treated as a dangerous criminal and be put away.
Politicians who took control then argued ‘ We need the bomb to win the war.’ (This day similar argument we hear from politicians who cry hoarse for curtailing our liberties in order to win the war on terror).
The statesmen of the time however did not reckon for Klaus Fuchs who passed on the secrets to the Soviet who began stockpiling nuclear arsenal as a deterrent as well as to win the Third World War. Nuclear bomb acquired an ideological edge that gave the hawks in Washington ascendancy. Two or three times the world came to the precipice of a catastrophe.
Each man is a representative of his race: he shall have his own sympathies given time and place to something larger than he as an individual. If Klaus Fuchs acted as a spy for the Soviets why not AQ Khan? Having worked with URENCO a uranium enrichment plant in Europe he had access to secret documents. He has confessed to transferring nuclear technology to Iran and Libya.
In the eyes of the West he may be an evil genius but he is to the republic of Pakistan, a national hero. Exclusion principle points out the truth that sadly we always miss owing to our own prejudices.
benny
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