Social Evils (With Outline)

Social Evils

Social Evils

Outline:-

• Introduction
• Lust for wealth and gross materialism
• Adulteration, bribery, black-marketing are symptoms, not causes
• Jobbery, nepotism and hoarding
• Ethics, sectarian, religious and linguistics diversities
• No area free of social evils
• Failure of law enforcement agencies
• How the check them
• Conclusion

                If the people living in a society long to have huge amount of wealth and opulence and determine to a mass money by fair or unfair means, society will fall a prey to social evils. Quite regretfully, our country has contracted all the social evils undermining the cemented foundations of the country. Lust for wealth and the desire to make easy money are the two basic factors particularly responsible for the flourish of social evils. A gross materialistic urge coupled with insatiable pride, gives an edge to such evils as adulteration, bribery, black-marketing and smuggling. Its by produced are ostentations living, lavish spending and a pathetic distortion of traditional decencies. If social evils are to be eradicated, these tendencies must be curbed.

                It should, however, be borne in mind that most of the social evils are merely the symptoms and not the causes of the diseases that is corroding our society. If we want to eradicate these evils, we must lay stress less on the symphonious and more on the causes. If we confine ourselves to the symptoms alone, we will, at the most, be applying a cosmetic treatment. It’s useless to prescribe palliatives when a surgical operation is called for deterrent punishment for hoarders, black marketers and adulterators is all very fine but it works in a small scale and its impact is superficial and transient. It merely touches the tip of the ice berg. For a more lasting solution we must strike at the roots of evils and re-arrange our life, priorities quite measurably.

                Nepotism and jobbery have been at the apex in Pakistan during the last two decades. The government officials can benefit the people of one area without proper right and can deprive the people of another area of their rightful share. They forget to follow any rule of business. They do whatever they like without giving due consideration to the rule of justice and fair-play. The illegal appointment of inefficient relatives and friends might lead us to huge destruction, if it is not checked immediately. Apart from bribery, nepotism, jobbery, black-marketing, forgery, swindling, delay in justice, our society today is also plagued with such evils as adulteration, hoarding, gambling, beggary, drug addiction, drug-trafficking, smuggling, dowry system, ostentations and prodigal living and sectarianism.

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                Although most of these corrupt practices fall within the purview of law, yet our law enforcing agencies have not been able to control them satisfactorily. Bribery and adulteration, in particular, are at the top of this black list and the heathen gods and goddesses of add seem to have acquired a dozen heads and scores of arms. There is hardly any area of human activity that is free from their vicious embrace. The giver the taker are both guilty, but the acquisitive impulse has stilled the voice of their conscience and made them in different to norms of values and morality.

                Food adulteration is also a colossal crime being committed openly in our society. It has spread its tentacles in a hundred different ways. Foodstuffs are adulterated, petrol and oils adulterated, pharmaceuticals are adulterated, cosmetics are adulterated, in short, the very warp and woof of life is adulterated. Despite the pressure of anti-corruption police establishments, drug enforcement cells and food inspection agencies, these evils continue to flourish.

                At the end I would like to suggest that the campaign for the eradication of social evils should be accelerated and pursued with greater feel zest integrity and devotion. The media of mass communication can do much to improve our moral tone. The right kind of television programme can rectify our perspective and expose the black sheep. Regeneration of moral values should be our principal aim. The road to salvation lies in acquiring an inner discipline; for this alone can deliver us from the curse of social evils.