Nothing is moral or criminal in the absolute terms; it is the definition of the society or a major chunk of the populace that ultimately evolves into law. What is de facto becomes de jure by efflux of time. This is an established social dictum. If today I say that the sight of someone other than my wife excites me, people call me a pervert or criminal. However, emotionally or in the biological sense, no one can really find fault with me, because nature has created human mind like that.
Human race, and the two sexes, man and woman, existed and the institution of marriage evolved later only as a matter of social safety and security. I know what I posted here will seem abhorrent to some or even to many.
Law is just a creation of the society, a sort of imposition or restriction on the Individual liberty, brought about by some sort of consent, some operation of the idea of checks and balances.
However, we lull ourselves to the belief that certain laws existed even before the start of civilized society. It is not so. I am here talking about Law we see in courts, worn in the collars of advocates and higher judiciary and not biological laws or scientific theories. But the social law tends to override even the laws of biological propensities and laws of statics, dynamics and thermodynamics.
The issue will be inconclusive because human mind is not exactly capable of defining absolute morality or the lack of it. Great philosophers might have reached very near the conclusion but like Absolute Zero in thermodynamics, the summit is beyond reach. Moreover, we the ordinary mortals are far off the summit. Life is just moving ahead, making instant, temporary, semi-permanent or even permanent adjustments and compromises. A simple person can easily accept it and come to terms with it, but we complicate the issues.
When considered from the perspective of social stability, no one can find fault with the restrictions the society clamps unless they stymie the individual into non-existence or self-annihilation. The present social order cannot subsist without reasonable controls. It is ultimately a dynamic balance between interests of the Individual, molecular family, larger family, region, state, Nation and humanity as a whole. The priorities can vary with mind-set, time and other circumstances. However, we end up with false notions when we try comparison among things that are by nature contradicting. Only a sensible balance is the viable solution. The wisdom of the social group alone can lead us to success in such a balancing act.
It is not that I oppose law and social order and i would not dream of entertaining thoughts of carnal and avaricious nature and I have never coveted the things that belonged to anyone else. My idea is rather to point out that there are some basic materials inside our minds which when left without channelling can create problems of adjustment for ourselves with the external world. It is just a tight rope walk, sure, life life is.
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