Is Moral policing required for V.Day?

Well, to begin with I thot of writing this topic as many of my friends were asking me online this week “About my plans for V.day” and my common answer was “dedicating a pink chaddi to Rama sena ppl”(actually I was kidding). But one of my friend Anil suddenly suggested that y don’t I write something on moral policing which struck me and I thot to pen it down.

These days as we read in most of the papers abt women being badly treated by some of the politicians cum goondas, what do us youngsters have to comment on this is my question to the viewers?

Something struck me as I’m blogging, I remember when I was in my 12^th Std, we as classmates of Science had gone to Bandstand(Mumbai) one of those days. Bandstand is very well known for its beauty and u will find most collegians having fun there. We were there for abt 2 hrs, had fun and returned back home.The very next day, I see some shocking pictures on the front page of TOI. Few minutes after we left there was attacks by police done to common ppl who were there in bandstand. There were married and unmarried couples, siblings, group of friends…etc among those crowd. The pictures were terrible and this happened agn due to some issue raised by the politician. These ppl were arrested and put in jail for no reason.

After going thru the paper I was just thanking god for his grace once again as I cant think of something like this that could happen in my life. If we would have delayed to go from there few minutes….we would have got it. Its said in Bible that “Angels will protect you in all your ways”

In the first place, if someone is behaving immorally in public, they should already be in trouble under the existing criminal laws. Indecent behaviour, such as public nudity, just to name an example, is banned by almost every civilised country in the world. (A few, mainly European countries, do permit some amount of public nudity, though.)

Creating a moral police which would supposedly enforce "social sanctions" seems rather pointless in such a case. Some might suggest that the moral police would exist to limit things like extremely romantic/sexual/indecent behaviour, but this seems to be a cop out to me.

If society truly believes this behaviour is unacceptable, it wouldn't be a problem criminalising it under the secular law. If one has to form a new enforcement body simply to enforce these additional moral laws, it's suggestive that these moral laws haven't found favour with society at large, and thus what we have is a minority attempting to impose its will on the majority.

In the first place, a moral society would not need moral policing to keep its immoral people in check. A moral society would simply express its disapproval of such behaviour in an informal manner, and shame the offenders into ending the abhorrent actions. If this did not work, the secular law could always be amended to prohibit unacceptable indecent acts. There is no need for a moral police.

Viewers, would appreciate your suggestions on this.