Morals Questionable

Recall when you were a kid in 5th grade. I said about 5th grade because that is the age where one starts understanding things around him. There is a thick line drawn at that time in the MORAL SCIENCE class as to what is good and what is bad. He starts understanding those things and grabs them. Thereafter he starts implementing on it. Yet there is still a major childishness as everything beyond his vision and sight is a fantasy and hence he starts questioning about them.

So if you could recall, the things that were taught to us at that time were help the poor and the needy, do not talk to strangers, wake up early in the morning, respect elders and be truthful and do not steal things and help people whenever they need them.

Now the thing is, are all these morals relevant in today’s time? For reference I would like to recall the latest incidence when the entire Delhi was shook by the serial blasts. The one bomb blast among the many in the capital had one thing in different. N September 28, a nine-year-old boy, was killed on the spot as he innocently picked up a black polythene bag containing a Tiffin box bomb, as it exploded in his face. If he wasn’t taught the moral values of helping people on streets who by chance (read deliberately) dropped a bomb near him.

At the end of the day, it is our honourable ministers asking people to maintain peace and calm in the face of this adversity. The meeting to beef up security system immediately lands on the first seat. But as some time passes, the things seem to be done with a cold shoulder. Why our system can’t stands boldly on the issues like this. Besides what do they think we should teach children as in the moral values? Should we start teaching them what the real world is like? Should we fill them with so many negatives about the world that they make their own life negative? Should we tell them that, ‘sorry kid, learn a different lesson because the moral that you had been taught, no longer survives in the world today’. The morals seem to be a decayed history today as the child had to pay for it by giving away his life.
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