Someone once asked me what is the relationship between a society's moral and the law of the land, the constitution that is supposed to govern it. Well even after thinking for a long time the only way I could describe it was by the word hypocrisy. The society although build on the very basis of the law that governs it i.e the constitution, still swears not by it but by its moral. The morals of society clearly accept female feoticide and things like gender bias or dowry system with open arm even though the law tries really hard to make them go away.The law states that everyman is equal but our morals state otherwise it states that it is okay to oppress the weak. On two separate occasion I saw a little bump of vehicles in first case it was a car and a auto the man from the car got out and slapped the man driving the auto. On a second occasion an auto and a rickshaw bumped lightly but this time the auto driver went ahead and slapped the rickshaw puller. Yet in another incident I saw a car of a party worker(some big name political party) just leave a parking lot without paying the parking fee while the fee collector looked at him contemplating and maybe feeling helpless and so did I. The basic patter and societies mindset in all these are hard to miss. So the thing is even though it may appear that law governs tha land but the truth of the matter is its the morals of a society that overshadows it in day to day way of going about business. So even though a new law may be brought in with stricter and harsher punishment the truth remains it will be as useless as the last one unless the society which has to both implement and follow it accepts it as part of our morals.
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