Dear Editor,
Your editorial on temptation in SN of 2022-07-28 provides no solution and completely ignores my solution published the previous day under the heading, “Discipline the human will in order to achieve better”. SN managed to distill a secular headline out of a spiritual context. You did a better job with Krishna Nand Persaud’s, “Our human side needs more than rationalism”. He is right.
Oscar Wilde is also right about his own inability to resist temptation. My solution to temptation is therefore to give in to a more tempting temptation. I study this superior temptation in all its glory and what joys I can get out of it. As a chemist I trained myself to look upon matter and see (imagine) the oxygen, silicon, aluminium, hydrogen and sulphur grow interlocking spikes in concrete; and the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, magnesium, phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium combine to enable a leaf on a tree to function.
Now, when those who know me can’t figure out my peculiar eating habits, I sometimes explain that I see denatured proteins leading to cancers and other diseases in all those fancily cooked or otherwise processed foods they enjoy, and further addictions in their libations. But unless expressly requested, I will not impose further on SN letter space with my ultimate proof against temptation of all kinds.
Sincerely,
Alfred Bhulai