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An overdose of morality

Posted on July 02, 2013

"I have never felt so helpless and humiliated. If visiting the public place after a certain time was a crime, I am ready to pay for the fine. But I doubt it would be Rs.10000. Also I believe the police do not have any rights to defame or humiliate a person by calling them call girls / Prostitutes."

Moral policing seems to have become an expensive affair in our country. Never mind the self-proclaimed  guardians of morality who allow their own ethics to take a hike.

What is moral policing according to them, anyway? Let’s take a look. Moral policing is what these immoral thugs do to respectable men and women, in the name of prevention of indecency committed by the two sexes in public places. And what is indecency, according them, you may be itching to know. Indecency is when two colleagues belonging to a respectable organisation stop for a bite after a long day at work. Indecency is when a married couple stop the car by the road side to answer a phone call.

Let us also take a look at what decency is according to them.

Decency is when women are humiliated by branding them as prostitutes even after they desperately declare they are employees of reputed companies? (Reputation? Now what will these thugs in the guise of ‘moral’ police understand about someone’s reputation).

Moral police is the brigade of hypocrites who like to visit red light areas for their own vested purposes while raiding parties in elite circles, painting every woman present there with the same disrespectful, demeaning and demoralising brush. Moral police is also a group of corrupt yet self-righteous hooligans who throw their weight around to make money illegally by flashing their falsified flag of morality and a moral compass that clearly does not point north.

One only wonders who can police these immoral thugs with a twisted moral fibre.