Moral values and ethical traditions may fluctuate from place to position as social norms and traditions change with the change of area. Issues morally acceptable within the USA may not be socially acceptable in China or Russia. For instance, leering or looking at a lady is a severe crime within the USA however in India such actions are handled as “routine issues” and in Afghanistan the culprits concerned in such ‘routine issues’ should face beheading. Within the Western nations, we see that morality is taken into account the middle of gravity and axis round which the entire system revolves; and that is the essential ingredient of all their success and all their achievements. Be it President Invoice Clinton or anybody else; folks within the West by no means forgive any sort of ethical misconduct. They contemplate negation of moral values in addition to denial of ethical traditions, step one to the deterioration technique of any society. That’s the reason that they by no means compromise on moral values and ethical traditions.
You all should be remembering George Floyd, a black man who was brutally killed by a police officer within the final week of Could 2020 in Minneapolis, USA. This brutality was strongly condemned by the entire nation. The ethical values of the American folks didn’t allow them to stand with a assassin although he was a white man. After that homicide of a black man, the streets of Minneapolis thronged with hundreds of protesters who had been elevating slogans in favour of the murdered black man and demanding strict motion towards the offender. It was little doubt the general public stress that the Minneapolis authorities agreed to pay $27 million to settle a wrongful dying lawsuit introduced by Floyd’s household on 12 March 2021. Furthermore the police officer Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in jail on 25 June 2021.
The identical ethical values you’ll discover adopted by Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand and her folks, when in two consecutive mass shootings on two mosques in Christchurch greater than 50 folks had been killed and 40 injured. The horrible incident occurred on 15 March 2019. Jacinda, regardless of being a Christian, not solely condemned this cruelty but additionally stood with the Muslim group. She did all her greatest to hint the offender and to ship him behind the bars. The entire nation additionally accompanied her on this journey to justice and impartiality. This all may have been doable solely as a result of a set-pattern of moral values and ethical traditions is at all times there to be adopted by everybody from the USA to New Zealand.
Sadly the state of affairs of human rights, justice and impartiality is just not very a lot praiseworthy and considerable within the Third World nations, notably within the South Asian nations like India and Afghanistan. Lately the information of the Afghanistan authorities’s placing a ban on increased training of females in Afghanistan has mentally tortured not solely the worldwide world however particularly the Muslim world additionally. How may the followers of a faith which repeatedly emphasizes the necessity of training for all women and men, create hurdles for these craving for training; it’s little doubt a really legitimate query. Although the worldwide peace-makers and care-takers of human rights are attempting all their greatest to ease the state of affairs, it isn’t simple to waive off the moment psychological impression of such insurance policies. It’s the similar sort of impression which the folks of Gujarat needed to face in 2002 after the properly deliberate bloodbath of the Muslims by the BJP hooligans underneath the ‘variety’ management of Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India.
Extra painful is the truth that this yr (2022) within the month of June, the Supreme Courtroom of India handed over a clear chit to Mr Modi, who was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat. The Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) of India, had filed a petition for searching for an impartial probe into the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances; sadly that petition was additionally ‘flatly’ turned down. By showering blessings on the BJP and Mr. Modi, the Supreme Courtroom of India deliberately ignored the bitter proven fact that Mr Modi had been banned until 2014 from getting into nations resembling the USA due to his direct involvement within the Gujarat bloodbath because the Chief Minister of Gujarat. The bitter truth of the matter is that not solely the Indian Muslims however virtually all minorities live in an inferno of human rights violations in India.
The BJP authorities is struggling to reshape India as a ‘minorities-free” nation. Lately ‘The Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship’ given to minority college students for increased training has been discontinued by the federal government. The Muslim group has expressed severe reservations on this act of the BJP authorities. All this unfairness relatively injustice is just due to negation of moral values and ethical traditions. The place have gone the morality orated within the holy Gita and sacred Rig Veda; the place have gone the lesson of humanity preached by the gods and goddesses; that’s actually one million greenback query.
Apoorvanand, a widely known analyst on minority affairs, is a professor on the Delhi College of India. Lately The Wire revealed his article with the title ‘The Escalating Assaults on Christians’. The author says, “The insistence of India being secular doesn’t change the truth for the violated Christians. Their homes have been damaged if not demolished, their belongings looted or destroyed they usually have been pushed out of their habitats. They’ve been changed into internally displaced folks pleading for reduction. They wish to return to what was and continues to be their properties.”
The BJP authorities is struggling to reshape India as a ‘minorities-free” nation. Lately ‘The Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship’ given to minority college students for increased training has been discontinued by the federal government. The Muslim group has expressed severe reservations on this act of the BJP authorities. All this unfairness relatively injustice is just due to negation of moral values and ethical traditions. The place have gone the morality orated within the holy Gita and sacred Rig Veda; the place have gone the lesson of humanity preached by the gods and goddesses; that’s actually one million greenback query.