In Africa as everywhere in the world and in Cameroon in particular, normalized counter values for selfish interests are difficult to eradicate. Sometimes it is better to compromise yourself than to show courage in a corrupt system that hates those who want to pose as vigilantes.
It is on the strength of this observation that based on the reality of the facts of daily experiences marked by morbid acts on the one hand, and recommendable on the other hand, that we offers you some lines of thought that will allow you certainly to identify by yourself the most judicious choices in certain circumstances.
First scenario
An individual declares: This country is bad! Leaders are corrupt! There is nothing for the poor, the rich have taken all the wealth! But after having perceived a pecuniary motivation in order to buy his silence and attract inadequate favours, he begins to bless and encourage in turn the acts he denounced before.
Another individual says: The way this country is run is confusing! How to stop the stalemate of these unhealthy attitudes that want to keep us in obscurantism without compromising ourselves?
Second scenario
An individual said: the way people eat in this country it's terrible! When I myself will be where they are, I will also be like them. They think who's dumb? They spend their time taking advantage of their positions by taking what is not rightfully theirs and they believe that when I am there, I will watch them eat without asking for my share?
Another individual said: O you our dear ancestors, who witness the outrageous attitudes we continue to adopt, have mercy on us! Help us to return to the path of righteousness that enabled you to lay the foundations for our liberation.
Third scenario
An individual says: if you have problems come see me! But still plan a little something for my taxi (refreshments…) you know that with the heat in this country, you have to constantly quench your thirst?
Another writes in front of his office door: All services are free here! Anyone who tries to come and tempt me as he usually tempts others, I stop him myself and bring him to the service that deals with tendentious acts.
The true motivations of an act can sometimes be plagued by selfish ambitions which reveal their true nature when the main person concerned is granted a privilege that he has always taken to the habit of sneakily envying in others. Those who do not have what others have are always ready to criticize. But when what justifies the real reasons of their protest has been given to them that is to say, jealousy, hypocrisy etc... They finds themselves drawn into a pernicious circle to which they had always dreamed of belonging.
Real protests are those based on true principles and true beliefs. Is ready to give his life, that is to say, his talent, his time and his energy to defend just causes, only the one who really has at heart to contribute to the expansion of justice on earth, and bring others out of the obscurantism in which the apostles of lies and excess want to eternalize them after having previously made the same path of conversion and liberation.
True service relates to any disinterested act which deserves its recompense and which results from the fidelity of the subject to his moral conscience. If our justice comes down to the perpetration of what we are used to living in our societies that have normalized immorality this means that we are useless citizens, that is to say, who do not contribute to the well-being of their nation.
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