deteriorating human values

perhaps, this weekend is the worst ever since the beginning of the year. i was bombarded with 3 exams this week, one in next week, another one in the following. not only that, this week's job is like hell hard to be done, with assignments to be checked getting more difficult, not only for students, but to graders as well. and yes, a disastrous weekend full of disasters . YAY..it's november..and tonight is the end of daylight savings, which means we're gonna get one hour free.

well, regardless of whatever happened this time around, in contrast to melancholic kind of previous postings, i wish to have this coming week to be just good as there'll be stat exam on wednesday.

this week, the whole nation was surprised by the news that razak baginda was eventually freed from the allegation on being in the complot to kill the mongolian beauty, altantuya. well, this case is sooo politically related, and people have been using the issue to gain support and whatever. yes, i'm not gonna talk about this from political view, neither to go against what has been decided by the high court, as everyone should respect what the court says. but, we really should think about think about this from the perspective that how bad human values have dropped to.

for those who know the story, the accusation that razak baginda had with 2 other suspects was they were allegedly involved in the murder of the mongolian beauty. the story goes on, and one interesting point to be made here is that razak baginda actually did admit that he had affair with the murdered mongolian lady for 8 months!! i can hardly understand how people now behave that way although he had his own family(wife and children), he still resorted to having affair with other lady.

the same thing happened with haneef basri too (engineer who was accused of killing a model and later freed). he had a family but still went out with another lady. you can imagine how bad this behaviour is, compared to how malay values put so much importance in having a good family and hence to build a very balanced, civilized society.

the list goes on to dumping of babies and all sorts of human crimes. this week only, there were two major events reflecting on how human values are viewed in current modern society. in south korea, the constitutional court over there declared that non marital sex is illegal, which then drew a lot of critics from locals and foreigners, as to how this decision is seen as denials on human rights and whatever. Well, actually, the law has actually been enforced for decades and it was actually just a luck for those defended it since, though majority of the judges voted to abolish the law, yet the law is still in force due to insufficient 2/3 majority. another major event was that indonesian parliament just passed the anti-porn bill, which again, is seen as suppressing human rights, especially hindus.

well, there is quite a number of different events as listed above. but they all refer to the same thing; how human values deteriorate to (might be) the lowest point ever. well. i'm kinda conservative and little bit sexist, but i don't care . what i care about is the common thing that all those events have. people no longer care much about their loyalty for their marriages, resulting to high divorce rates and bad family values are taught to the children.

we are so westernized, a common term used by people, and we become so selfish. you can be a perfect lover today, and become killer the next day. what causes this? it's our selfishness that cost us the falling of our human values. we don't trust each other and yes, we have good reason for that; it's becaue we think other people are selfish too.

despite of how good we are at anwering soalan Pendidikan Islam SPM about what needs to be done to alleviate moral values, still we are so damn bad at changing ourselves to be better. i just don't know how bad can this be, but one thing for sure, we always never ask for anything worse than this.

so, how are we gonna change this ugly condition of this world?? ask yourself, you know exactly what needs to be done.


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