Life's Domino Effects, Each Existence Contributing: The Domino Effect Versus the Dimino Effect

In life, each existence contributes in some way and life often demonstrates a domino effect.  

What is a domino effect? The domino effect is a relatively new phenomenon. Dictionary.com suggests that the domino effect is “the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events” and is the “domino reaction”,  and that it was coined during 1965-1970. 

Everyone loves a good game of dominoes. It appears that it does not matter who wins the game, as it is just a game. It is not the game of dominoes under discussion here, although the same basic principles apply to life itself. For example, in terms of business, there can be severe repercussions when acts or events are interconnected, like dominoes in a row or forming a circle.

Consider the typical picture of each one standing slightly apart forming a single row. One falls down and all of the others follow suit shortly thereafter. One by one, they all tumble to the ground. Each domino contributes to the fall of the entire row. This is the domino effect and it is evident in business, too.

Human beings tend to act like dominoes, at times, as they play the game of follow the leader in business. One human being falls and all of the others fall with him or her. Many times, this has to do with human norms, based largely upon the majority. What one can do, everyone else can do too, or can they? That is actually a supposition that is predominant in a domino mentality or a domino way of thinking.

There is another effect and norm based upon morality, but it takes a single person, family, community or country standing alone, to initiate or enforce that norm. This depicts another game in life which people can and do play, although they seldom acknowledge it in terms of a designated name.

In contrast to the concept referred to previously as the domino effect, consider a new concept, the dimino effect. The difference is this. The domino falls down, with all of its dominoes following suit, while the dimino stands alone.

Although no one has named this phenomenon previously, throughout the course of human history there are many who have taken such a stand and stood the test of time. There are thousands of individuals, families, communities or countries who have stood alone, often because of a unique moral stand. Frequently, this is a stand is for truth of some kind.

Yes, there is a domino effect where some kind of a cumulative effect results, when an event of some kind causes the initiation of other events of a similar nature.

At the same time, there is also a dimino effect, which occurs when some kind of an event of a non-cumulative nature, results in a determined, moral stand taken by one unique individual, family, community or country.

Humankind needs to be cautious about its stand in terms of the domino effect or the domino effect. Should people follow the norms of the majority, or the norms of morality? 

It appears that each person who exists will contribute to one or the other, the domino effect or the dimino effect. Such is the reality of existence.