Modern times have boasted of much advancement in the field of science, technology and communications. Yet there is a total lack of improvement in the one field – human psychology. If anything, there is a complete breakdown of moral fabric especially when the cloak of anonymity as offered by the online media exists.
These thoughts have been nagging me at one level or the other for quite sometime now. But what bought it on to inspire a full length blog on this issue is an article I was reading on the rediff.com portal. It was something about the landing of the Atlantis and the half-Indian astronaut, Sunita Williams on board.
The comments left on the post were so bad in taste; I was taken aback by the sheer spitefulness of it. This being a public blog, I am sorry and thankful – in the same vein - at not being able to share it. But I can't restrain from broadcasting my distress in this regard.
Why? What prompts the “educated” readers to launch into such garble? What relief do these people gain by using such profanity in public form? That too, not to abuse a rogue or a thug (not meaning to say THAT is excusable) but in a simple harmless article.
Aren’t there enough pornographic sites on the virtual world already? Why can’t these perverts limit their dirty imagination to such pages? What is the need to defile good/oft-visited pages unnecessarily? Rediff.com is one of the leading webpages in India and lot of kids and young minds do hit it regularly. What are we telling them? It’s OK to be profane in public? As long as no one finds out, it is OK to bad mouth someone unnecessarily?
Generally, people tend to write off the eve-teasing incidents in buses and other public places as the handiwork of “those poor and uneducated” types. I don’t think any of those poor and uneducated types logon to the online world and spew such worthless scrapheap in there.
No matter whodunit, no matter what their ages are - It’s just a collective shame on the society that allows such people to get away scot-free. In my opinion, they are not a grain less guilty than those involved in various adult crimes all over the world. They deserve the severest of punishment possible for creating such a bad feelings in readers. Don’t you think so too?
2 comments:
Agree with you but why weren't the comments moderated/deleted?
"Under moderators consideration" was what the site said. Guess must have been removed at a snail's pace sometime later. But that is besides the point na, Leo. Why do we need moral policing at all places? Isnt there something called self-restraint?
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