Devil's paradox

I thought karan thapar was a terror as I generally tended to watch his devil's advocate show.But then it was with a little surprise that I read Friends and opponents by him in Hindustan Times dec 23.

".. Regardless of who loses what will be hard to forget is the distasteful comments exchanged between Sonia Gandhi and Narendra Modi. To be honest, they were more than unnecessary and unbecoming. They were uncouth."I fully agree with his viewsI also fully concur with his assessment that media is playing to the gallery by 'playing up their (politician's) comments'.

So now let's go right ahead and examine the devil's paradox.
P.S. In English the noun phrase devil's paradox is ambiguous between wether 'one devil's paradox' and 'paradox of "devils"'.Take your pick.

A paradox consists of atleast two statements that seem to contradict each other.

statement 1:" MPs are extremely warm and friendly.” -In Parliament
statement 2:"in their speeches and election rallies do MPs forget their friendliness"

Resolutions of the paradox:

• 1.politician's treat political opposition as enmity. Karan Thapar's view
• 2.There are no friends any way-any time -any where.
• 3.People are friends except when their interests are effected.
• 4.Politicians are schizophrenic. They are one persona in parliament and another at election rallies
• ....

We could add some more.

What is probably the most sensible resolution?

That there are multiple relations between any two persons.In the parliament A and B are friends. But in the electoral Arena thay are rivals-for an outsider.But in the electoral Arena they are opponents to be vanquished-for A and B.

Let us consider C and D who are friends as well as boxers who participate in a contest. If the two of them think I shouln't hit a friend they will get boo.. from the audience besides losing points. In the ring they had better be boxers than friends- and no holds barred at that -let the referree take care of the fouls.(Election commission take note).

I can add from personal experience that once in the ring you only at the opponent and not the public. and that you have one goal to defeat him you don't think.You react.

Remember Lord krishna's advice to Arjuna on his reluctance to fight his kith and kin?kill or be killed -take your pick.
In any case let's take a look at so called advanced countries the U.S, France and germany. Tell me when was the last time that a sex scandal was not whipped up in the electoral arena. When was the last time skeletons were not pulled out from the cupboard?
Karan's lament and the punch line?“You were in devastating form,” said tThe boxers routinely do it but only after all the rounds and the winner is declared.