UnReasonable-I

From the outermost surfaces of Political Science that I have studied for three months now, it is clear that the general opinion is that man is endowed with Reason. Man, by nature is reasonable. Interestingly of the eighteen years that I have lived, through retrospection and impulse I have noticed man spends his time defying his natural endowment of reason. Today's defiance: Seniority, of the many others of course.

Getting back to Reason. The natural endowment of reason is something that I, and safely said all of us, are sub consciously mindful of. Political Science of the past three months served as means of becoming conscious of it. Much like a tort landmark case wherein the principle derived is actually a product of reason, that both you and I can derive, but the judge brought it into consciousness by the application of his reason.

Now for Seniority. I can not find the adjective to describe how huge a defiance seniority is of reason. I am in Law School. In the first year, with four years worth of seniors ahead of me. My life in Law School is a lot beyond the class room. It includes a lot of activities in which interaction with seniors is inevitable, don't get me wrong I do not want it any other way. These activities apart from the content of the activity include a lot of other phenomena which serve to facilitate the activity and are also products of human interaction. For example Football. Apart from football containing football its consists of a hierarchy in the form of a team, the coach, the captain. It consists of emotions that one feels when he misses a penalty, like I did yesterday, and emotions that one feels when getting into an argument with a, or as it is put here The Senior, like I felt today.
I pride myself, rather sardonically, about not succumbing to Seniority, my own team asked to apologise for he was a senior. My Reason did not let me. The sight of the child in him taking him over was hilarious. Since I did not buckle and his seniority, his only weapon, was blunted he came to, putting it crudely, bash me up. And his own team mates stopped him. Just a paragraph for self glorification.

Getting to the point. The action of everybody around me asking to me to apologies for he is a senior defies reason. They all forget that in the eyes of reason a man who does wrong compensates. Not the one who is wronged. And this defiance is so deep rooted. Our own constitution framers defied Reason when they decided that a judge must be chosen on Seniority.
Today one guy asked me to apologise out of respect to the Senior. So that's what the weak foundation of seniority is, Respect. The judge's respect should be maintained, so wait, don't make the guy who is better the CJI, make the guy who is older than him, you must respect him!

I can't help but get into the exclamation of " Oh come on!". Why Seniority? What happened to ability, capability, merit? What happened to Reason.

Next defiance: Sycophancy. (Probably)