Warped ideologies

Moral policing - the term itself sounds incongruous to me. I mean, we have our parents and our teachers to teach us about morality and how to live our lives according to the norms of society. More often than not it is life itself that teaches us how to behave. So where then, does the moral police fit it. They assume no role in our lives other than being total strangers. They are almost always society's rejects. Then how is it that the assume on themselves the mantle of protecting societal norms, when they themselves have never followed society's dictats.

Moral police aside, an already morally retarded police force is also taking on the role of moral policing. Why don't they just stick to what they are good at - corruption and incompetence. What really got my goat was a small article in a leading newspaper which spoke of how members of a women's NGO and the local police, stalked a couple having an extra marital affair and then dragged each one to their respective homes. While the woman was told to look after her children, the man was told to be there for his wife who was pregnant. 

Okay! and then what - they turned their backs and walked off - do they feel they have done the morally right thing? I don't condone extra-marital affairs, but I also believe in, to each his own, what goes around comes around. Where are these moral police when couples in love are separated and forced to marry against their wills. Is that moral? Where are they when unwilling partner in a marriage takes out frustration on the helpless spouse, who will not have a clue why they are at the recieving end of such rage. Where is the morality in living false lives?

After creating a public tamasha of sorts with regards to the said couple do you honestly think they their family life will be normal again? Would you forgive an erring spouse who has been publicly caught? What will go through the mind of the pregnant wife whose husband was dragged back by the moral police. Her sorrow is now public debate, something she could do without, in her delicate situation. 

In a male-dominated society, do you think the woman would be forgiven by her family and allowed to live a normal life? The said NGO and the police think they have done their moral duty to society by trying to restore peace to two families. What they have unleashed instead is a lifetime of misery for 4 adults and for their children. I mean don't NGOs and police have better work than stalking couples? Isn't stalking a crime?

If this is people's idea of doing good for society, the possibilities are infinite when it comes to the constantly growing lopsided moral brigands.