Maintain Code of Conduct

Each day as we tune into the news, there are reports of violent acts, unrest and dishonesty engendering a sense of fear. Added to these is the apparent lack of solution to resolving these crimes which are fast increasing in almost every country across the globe. If news paper reports are an indication, even the legislative bodies, which are expected to be examples of decorum, decency and civility, have been deviating from their well-established high standards of probity and debate. The law- enforcing agencies also have been bitterly criticised for atrocities on the suspects and the undertrials and for complicity with criminals. Students, who are supposed to be observing discipline, are reported to be on the rampage in the campus or on eve-teasing errands in the buses. Off lately even some preachers of religion and morality are found to be involved in various unlawful acts. When an ordinary person finds that there has been an alround fall in standards of public and private morality and observance of law, he or she feels tempted to take recourse to illegal measures.

Today, there is hardly anyone who does not violate or flout the law in one way or another. The tendency to disregard law has reached perhaps an all-time high. Powerful people consider their own conduct as the law or above the law. There is much lawless law also. One is required under the law to print statutory warning on cigarette packets and then one can advertise and sell this poisonous stuff without any fear of law! One may have a mother-in-law, father-in-law and brotherin-law but when one hears of bride-burning, one asks: Where is the law? Under such a scenario, one wants to know who is to think for this sad situation? what are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs? What can now be done to make man law-abiding and peaceful by nature? In fact, everyone has been responsible to some extent for the current state of act to lawlessness and disorder because everyone has violated the law at least in thought if not in deed. There are many factors which have led to the present near-anarchic state of society — the main among them, being lack of moral and spiritual education, ignorance about the identity of the self, spread of materialistic values etc. And, so, the remedy now is to include human values in education and have value- based politics and to give importance to the code of conduct for every profession.