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Legality of the Morality




Too many incidents happening frequently, which brings up this post :

1.   The Palghar Facebook Incident [Shiv Sena Supremo related]

2. Sibal 2G No Loss

 3. Gadkari Holding companies issue

4. Legality of calling the Indian parliamentarians names.

and so on...

Days at end, the legality of these issues has been debated.
The Palghar incident caused a relook of the Constitution / laws of the country, the new auction has supposedly given a clean chit to Sibal / Congress in the 2G spectrum auction case, something similar to what has happened with Gadkari and some audits done by his party.
During the fast undertaken by Anna Hazare, parliamentarians were called names, which was immediately raked up as an issue by some MP's.

 So what is the crux of these matters.
First, as must be obvious, I hold no qualifications in Law, which as you will see is beside the point, since a majority of the country's citizens do not as well.

 The sad fact is this, In each of these cases, let us for a moment assume that what they have done is all legal, but without doubt, in all of these cases, these accused are definitely in a grey area of morality.

 So if probably Mr. Sibal did prove himself right, with the help of some crony capitalism, the fact that he has erred does not change. The same holds for Mr.Gadkari. As for the girl from Palghar, sadly the unstated fact is this - she forgot the fact that the area (city/district/state) where she is in, obviously respects the said person, who is now dead. Her right to criticise is obviously legally hers, but the accepted norm globally is to not speak bad of the dead (atleast when the funeral is in process).  While it is her legal right to express herself, I would for a moment like to believe that the right comes with a few responsibilities as well.
 
In the 4th case, the question is not about those who called names, but about those MP's who went on and on publicly about how únseemly, disrespectful to the Parliament this name calling was, very well forgetting, that the general public by whom they were elected were largely in agreement to the name calling and that it was the probably acts of their very colleagues, well below the standards of those calling names, which had brought on this name calling.

Clearly, unfortunately, it is visible that our morality is now the victim of our legality. Almost, all of us are willing to do something illegal, as long as we dont get caught, very well forgetting that it is us who are degraded by that act which is in all probability much more immoral than defined by the severity of the legal penalties.

And that is where the lacuna is, the attempt of the state to guide our behaviour by legality and not by morality.

After all, All Sins are not crimes and all crimes are not sins.
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