Purpose dictates everything.

And it is not easy to determine the purpose of one, a community, an organisation, or even a country. Maybe that is why the education system allowed the teachings of purpose, only in O'level syllabuses.

Determining the purpose of others is a very important life skill. We need to constantly draw inferences from what little we know, to understand the bigger picture. That is what knowing purpose is all about.

It may be a writing, it may be a sentence, whatever it is, what lies beneath it might jolly well change the way we look at it. In fact, purpose is so major in today's society that judging crime can be through the perspective of purpose.

One's intent to kill, even if it seems minimal, represent a form of murder. Even before the weapon is yield, or actually, need not even have a weapon. Whilst at the same time, accidents, involving the death of others, cannot be judged as murder, even if all evidence are against so.

Of course, this is not as golden, or as fixed as it might look, but just a general way of looking at things.

But what's important is that we, as people of communities, are able to draw out the bigger picture with whatever subtle information we have. In fact, every speech has an intent behind it.

The tone of a simple "hello" can represent many different purpose, from sarcasm meant to hurt, to a friendly greeting aimed at bringing people closer together. Unless we can, for the most part, figure out most of the purpose of things around us, we cannot, feel safe, for it will just be a false sense of security.

The most fatal form of danger is not the unseen one, but those that are seen but not known. For an arrow shot from a mile away is hardly as deadly as a stab in the back 1 feet away.