The Game of Politics and the Human Conscience   Captain Mohamed Hassan Al-Tahir  

In the world of life, as in the world of politics, it seems that man is always striving for a state of dynamic equilibrium; society is not static, but oscillates between:

– conflicting interests,

– shifting decisions,

– and mounting pressures.

This rebalancing is not rigid stability, but a continuous movement that seeks to preserve balance between:

– authority and freedom,

– public interest and individual selfishness,

– human conscience and the temptations of power.

Here begins the game of politics, where conscience becomes the silent referee watching the players, yet is often marginalized or excluded from the field.

Politics by nature produces an asymmetric reaction:

– a small decision may leave a huge impact,

– a major reform may not immediately reflect on people’s lives.

This asymmetry makes the game more complex:

– a politician who thinks he has achieved success may later discover that its effect was the opposite,

– while a simple moral stance may open doors to profound change.

Conscience here becomes the compass that reveals deviations, but it needs courage to be heard amid the noise of interests and away from seductions.

At the heart of this game, illogical, non-sequential questions emerge; questions that do not follow rational order but suddenly spring from reality:

– Why is justice sacrificed?

– How can a lie be justified?

– Can a politician be human before being a player in power?

These non-sequential questions unsettle the traditional political mind, yet they open the way for conscience to reshape the equation.

Politics that:

– does not confront these questions turns into mere management of interests,

– while politics that allows them to surface becomes a search for a deeper meaning of human existence.

The game of politics is not just competition for power, but a constant test of human conscience.

Dynamic equilibrium forces the politician to balance between what the people want and what circumstances impose.

Asymmetric reaction reminds him that every decision carries unexpected possibilities.

Non-sequential questions place him before a mirror that reveals his contradictions.

Here conscience becomes the true player, and if absent, politics turns into a soulless stage.

The politician who understands these realities realizes that conscience is not a burden, but rather:

– a corrective energy,

– it gives dynamic equilibrium a human meaning,

– it transforms asymmetric reaction into an opportunity for learning,

– and it makes non-sequential questions a tool for discovering truth.

But the politician who ignores conscience enters the game without moral rules, becoming merely a player chasing points, unaware that the real game is man’s game with himself.

In the end, the game of politics and the human conscience is not a battle between two separate forces, but a continuous dialectic between:

– reason and interest,

– question and answer,

– action and reaction.

It is a game without end, yet in every round it reveals that conscience, no matter how neglected, remains present as an inner voice demanding justice, reminding us that politics without humanity is nothing but emptiness adorned with slogans.

To remind man that he is a being whose lightness cannot be borne, and conscience comes to remind him that God holds us accountable even for the weight of an atom of evil… full stop.