Today, after coming from an early morning jog I witnessed a group of 4 kids abusing to an extent which is beyond the ethos of a moral society. For them abusing or using some offensive words seems to be some sort of social activity. I am sure that these kids have learnt this from their social surroundings or worst from elders in their family. However, this is something which is more of a social issue which I don't want to focus now.
I was thinking that if we can make spitting a punishable offence in our country why can't we make abusing a punishable offence too. We talk about the citizen's Right to 'Dignity' or the Right to their 'Reputation' and then we talk about our constitutional rights liberally interpreted under Article 21 i.e. the Right to Life.
Isn't abusing sabotaging the dignity or reputation of our citizens. Isn't a lady subjected to verbal abuse by her husband is subdued of her dignity, isn't an abuse by employer of some Insurance or BPO enterprise to its employee is sabotaging the reputation and dignity of that employee too. Indeed it does.
As a solution I believe there are two fundamental requirements. First, the easiest one would be to impose moral sanctions by the civil society to the regular abusers. The society should abandon the individual who is found to be a regular abusers. And second, imposition of fine by our higher courts. A fine of meagure Rs 50/- for first offence would act as a formidable deterrence towards the errants.
These punitive measures are also needed because the vulnerable section of our population like poor children, housewives or working women and elderly are often subjected to some of verbal abuse in their life. We need to preserve their dignity and the time to deliberate on this issue has come.
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