Should the CORRUPT be hanged from the lamp post to wipe out CORRUPTION??????
@thedeathknight (335)
India
July 18, 2009 11:52am CST
Today, the evil problem of corruption is so alraming that in March 2007, Justice Markandeya Ktju remarked that the only way to get rid of corruption is to hang few coorupts on the lamp post. This statement alone suggests how disturbed judiciary is over this subject.
This evil has now gaines its roots firmly in our society. Right from the peon to the ministers the whole syatem has become motheaten.
According to me corruption is the outcome of a diseaced mind, and has more to do with morals and values of a person.
By hanging such persons alone will serve no good for our country as whole of the society is corrupt.
This disease can be wiped off by active participation of intellectual people in public affairs.Another option is to highlight he role of media in combating this evil.
Plz do tell us:
1)What are your views at this topic?
2)What are the effective measures we can take at our own level to prevent corruption?
3)Mention any incident you have faced in this context?
4)ANY Solutions to the problem?
I urge you to plz participate in this discussion and tell us all about what you think in regard to this topic..........
Removing corruption is no less than a "SECOND FREEDOM STRUGGLE".
5 responses
@savypat (20216)
• United States
18 Jul 09
Corruption is insidious, it creeps us on us little by little. The day you tell a small white lie or take a little more than you paid for, even a small cheat on a game. All these small things sets the social mindset up for full blown corruption.
In our country, USA, there is always so much pressure to get ahead in the material world. Our TV and Movie industries romanticize getting away with breaking the rules
starting with cheating in school up to and including murder. Getting the best part of a business deal is looked on as winning at life. There will never be a cure of corruption until humans at a very basic level grow beyond the need to compete. I think the race has much growth to go through and it will be very painful.
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@thedeathknight (335)
• India
18 Jul 09
Thanks for ur comments, and I agree with you that corruption cant be cured until humans develop themselves.
But are we not humans?? We also come in the category of humans and we have to develop ourselves and give the government and other social bodies an idea to fight this evil.
This is why I have started this discussion, to let teh users know that they have to develop themselves and give others a solution to fight against this evil.
@THEcreationist (837)
• India
22 Jul 09
Hi, friend.
Corruption is nothing but a well crafted term given and propagated by those who love to break laws for their profit. But, mind it, corruption is never one sided, those who are corrupt don`t make others corrupt but all of us tend to become corrupt if in need to do so. The main problem is not corruption but is the human tendency to indulge in things of profit and lawlessness, just for this time.
First of all, capital punishment is never a solution to any problem. It just eliminates the fruit, but lets the tree nourish in background.
Let us look at the root cause and driving force behind corruption. Talking in the language of computer programming, the materialism has started a loop in the sense that the cause of corruption i.e. desire for money and wealth, are the entities that are primarily affected by it. So, the cause is itself the victim. If you try to decrease corruption, money in the pockets of the corrupts will decrease and that will enhance the desire for wealth again which in turn boosts more of the corruption. So, if we try to oppose this evil by force, we are bound to increase it indirectly.
The need is to decrease the root that is the desire for wealth or the materialistic attitude of the people and that can be done from moral education, primarily the first steps that the parents take to teach their children at home, should be full of morals and examples by themselves. If the beginning becomes corrupt, you are bound to see the impact in future.
Most importantly, never do something that you don`t want others to do.
Happy Mylotting!!
@thedeathknight (335)
• India
31 Jul 09
Thanks for your comment.
I agree with you that desire for money is the root cause of corruption and parents and teachers have to take the responsibility to teach the next generation not to indulge in such scenes.
But what about the present, today corruption is so deep rooted that if the same rate continues, there would be nothing much left for the next generation to make the conditions better, as till then the ill effects of corruption will make conditions worse, extreme gap between rich and poor, zero economic growths of a large herd of educated people, extreme confidence of substances spreading terrorism in many ways, etc, etc..
Then what will we do.
So, according to me we should do something in this context ,atleast clean ourselves.
@THEcreationist (837)
• India
1 Aug 09
Well, my friend, I fully agree to you that corruption has gained control over the whole world machinery.
But, let me shed a bit of light on what you just said.
First of all, terrorism is not a result of corruption, it is the result of the corrupt people poisoning the minds of those who don`t have their own rationality. So, in effect, it is a result of low moral level than of corruption (even though corrupt people have some role to play in it).
Secondly, the educational sector growth rate is not zero. There is much the Indian government is doing in the field. Refer to: http://www.indiaeducationstat.com/
Thirdly, the gap between poor and rich is in part a result of corruption but the other part goes to their own inability to find ways of earning their living.
Well, I don`t disagree with your view that corruption is deeply integrated in the society. But, in the lights that we can not use force to extirpate it (as i mentioned in my previous response), your method of uprooting it seems infeasible and useless.
By the way, what good will you do by hanging those who are already risking their own lives to kill others. So, i again emphasize that capital punishment or any other form of hard punishment is never a solution and learn to find ways of escaping from punishments, rather the moral values of all the residents should be raised as they can not escape from themselves.
Do you propose any other concrete way of extirpating corruption that has reasons behind it to be accepted.
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
6 Jun 10
Well said..severe actions when taken corruption can be eradicated from the country.
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
23 Sep 12
Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India once made this comment that the corrupt should be hanged from the lamp post. But he could not make it possible in reality. The main reason is that India is a democratic country, so you have to abide by the laws laid down in her Constitution. So the government cannot do it what is not permissible by the Constitution. Our Constitution does not permit any such punishment and as a result it is not possible to hang a corrupt from the lamp post. Moreover, the people who are occupying the highest positions in the administrative or the political are themselves so corrupted that no proper action can be taken against the corrupt. If any action is to be taken against the corrupt, it would be started first against themselves. So we have to take it granted that corruption would be there in our country.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
23 Sep 12
Hi friend, it is really hard to remove the corruption from our country, since it is in each and every corner, unless all the persons who are doing corruptions come forward to give up their activities, it is too hard to remove it. Lot of struggles are going against corruptions, but still some people are doing it






