Opportunism is the practice using opportunities to gain an advantage for oneself, without considering if this is wrong or right and educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

As said in many on previous articles which was published in many websites, I have the culture to write the episode that I experienced in my practical life which some of them please me exceptionally while others annoys me. Since these stories, i would like to share with the society as these could be beneficial generally to our society. Human being throughout the world has common interest which means each of us has an interest that also serving the interest of others. This is a reality which no one can dispute. But despite for this truth, regrettably few elements of our society consider and see everything one side, which is the side that serves their self interest regardless the circumstances which they could reach their selfish inter Opportunist actions are expedient actions guided prim arily by self-interested motives even though this is morally wrong. It is as putting self-interest before other interests when there is an Opportunity to do which means maximi zing self-interest est right or wrong and they are called opportunists. Opportunism is the practice of taking selfish advantage of circumstances without consequences is for others. Opportunism is described as self-interest seeking with guile. It includes blatant forms, such as lying, stealing, and cheating, as well as subtle forms of deceit, mostly the incomplete or distorted disclosure of information.



Opportunist is a negative thing to call someone. It refers to the fact that they are known to jump at any opportunity they perceive might benefit them without regard for whether or not doing so might cause problems for someone else others. Somebody who takes an opportunity as soon as it arises often disregards others and the consequences. They often go about this unethically, taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit. Opportunist is a negative thing to call someone. It refers to the fact that they are known to jump at any opportunity they perceive might benefit them without regard for whether or not doing so might cause problems for someone else others. Somebody who takes an opportunity as soon as it arises often disregards others and the consequences. They often go about this unethically, taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.


Opportunism refers rather to a specific way of responding to opportunities, which involv es the element of self-interestedness plus disregard for relevant, in other words ethical principles, or for intended or previously agreed goals, or for the shared concerns of a group. The fact that the self-interested action evokes this conflict often implies that the tendency to use opportunities to advantage is excessive or improper, the consequence being a deficiency of character or at least a lack of propriety. In human behaviour gene rally, opportunism concerns the relationship between what people do, and their basic principles when faced with opportunities and challenges. The opportunist seeks to gain personal advantage when an opportunity presents itself, putting self-interest ahead of some other interest, in a way contrary either to a previously established principle or another principle that ought to have higher priority. True equality means holding everyo ne accountable in the same way.


Opportunist lacks ethics. Ethics is the rules of behaviour based on ideas about what is morally good and bad, it is consciousness of moral importance, it involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct, it is dealing with values relating to human conduct with respect the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and the goodness and badness. Ethics knows the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Great people have great values and great ethics and a person without ethics like the opportunities is a wild beast. Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life, but opportunities has no references in practical life . In conclusion, educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Education is without values in the absences of ethical principles. In short, I have practically observed a typical example of the above definition.

 

Ismail Lugweyne