IS MORAL
POLICING JUSTIFIED?
Recently a 15
year old girl was shot in the head for performing an IMMORAL act that is attending school. Malala
Yousufyai, a resident of Taliban occupied valley. The crux behind the matter ? FORCED moral policing.
So what
actually is moral policing? EDUCATING a child about the right and wrong by the
experienced people.
NO
“Forefathers’
teachings” is the veil for curbing somebody’s individualism and making him
submissive to your self-righteous and dominating intentions and this is subtly
named as “moral policing” today. That is an imposition of your or your
forefathers’ experiences to the present generation. Then the question arises is
do the same conditions and environment persist as they were with you or your
forefathers? The answer obviously is a resounding NO. We very well acknowledge the fact that we
determine something called instantaneous acceleration or instantaneous velocity
because we understand that at every moment the same set of conditions do not
apply in space and time. Then why do we not accept this in the real world?
Moral
policing in the past was displayed by the now extensively criticized acts of
the Brahmins and pundits or the higher classes, wherein they decided everything
for the whole community. It was them who decided what everybody would eat, how
they would pray so on and so forth. That was done in the name of helping the
individuals to gain ‘NIRVANA’ and hence people continued to accept everything
that fell out of their mouths. But it has been irrevocably proved by historians
that the sole aim behind this moral policing was their urge to keep the reins
of the society in their hands, stay in control of the community and exercise
immense power. Is moral policing justified?
Today this
“hidaayat” has taken various forms of either daily sermons by elders at home or
more rigid forms of anger at certain acts of yours. Isn’t this done for your
benefit? Protecting you from problems of society and safeguarding you? Have we
forgotten the story of the little boy who nursed a butterfly’s egg for a quite a
lot amount of time. Then one day he sees that the little one wants to come out
and see the glory of the sun but is hindered by the egg shell, the boy in his
attempt to HELP and SAFEGUARD it from the pain of the shell cuts open the shell
so that it can come out. The consequence? The little butterfly can never ever
fly because the very necessary initial pain caused by the shell was necessary
for it to enable its wings for later flights. As the boy rescued the butterfly
from that pain, he crippled it for life.
So what are
we aiming for via moral policing? We are aiming to give our kids a golden spoon
in mouth, fur coat on the shoulder and velvety roses under their feet for life?
But if somebody is given a chance to live, he has got his fair chance of
experimenting, striving, falling and rising up again in all glory. How many of
us know about SWAT- Special Weapons and Tactics forces who use specialized
tactics in high risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular
uniformed police? They have a policy. They employ only those people who have
seen at least one major failure in life and risen from it. Will a protected
child befit that? NO, because he was never given a chance to experiment. Unfair
and unjustified.
I would like to
conclude by stating the fact that if something as brainless as litmus indicator
doesn’t show the same color in every environment so your educated self believes
that a moral could in general apply to all irrespective of his conditions?
All I would
like to say is LIVE AND LET LIVE and you would be amazed when people come and
ask you to guide them J
