Are we getting close to this holier than thou intolerance and moral policing and prosecution?
Consider the recent Penang nudists-naturists whose only 'hurt' to others is our reactive 'immoral' touchiness being pricked. These exposed 'deviants' have now been purposely pilloried, shamefully harassed, paraded and publicly humiliated!
Don't get me wrong, I think these youths are simply mindless and anachronistic, to imagine that Malaysia is a testing ground for their show of derringdo! They're clearly lost in time, locale and space! Penang or Malaysia is certainly not the permissive beaches of Spain or France or Europe.
Malaysians are simply not this sort of 'perverse' permissive people! So get used to it! But, I have no doubt these thrill and dare-seekers are just stupid behaviour trying to push the cusps of bravado or some dangerous dare at foolish exhibitionism!
So this showy punishment is to deter what, or who? Of course, to warn others not to follow suit, to not tarnish our pristine Malaysian sociocultural morality and superiority! Our prickly sensibilities!
Whose sense of outrage are we appeasing? Or are we merely assuaging our so-called misdirected 'colok-mata' sensibilities?
Yet conversely, we condone the most outrageously extremist ethnic & racial baiting, in-your-face corruption, political shenanigans, our terrible record of selective police prosecutions, inexcusable detainee actions, unabashed custodial deaths, inexplicable and warped arbitrary judicial decisions, and shameful religious supremacist bigotry, etc. as if these jarring hatred-provoking behaviours are more acceptable, so mainstream, so 'right', to be encouraged with impunity and with such ungracious silence!
We've an increasingly warped sense of morality, of what's right and wrong. We've made moral decisions arbitrary and colored through the monstrous lenses of distorted ethnic and religious prejudices.
And we're chasing all the wrong values and virtues! We've lost our civil society's checks and balances! We need to return to some form of balance.... now increasingly lopsided and listing precariously into social chaos and anomie...
Whither our beloved Malaysia Truly Asia, 1 Malaysia even?
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