Not everything is ever all that it seems

Morally immoral action

Morality and moral superiority can be a rather standoffish quality when the bearer imagines a 'holier than thou' attitude.

A majority of people in society thankfully hold morality at high esteem and expect similar values from whomsoever they happen to come across. All people after all judge another by their own moral standards.

It is a rather petty person, in my opinion, who demeans another for not meeting the said self-imposed grade.

In my experience people who look down upon another person in moral superiority for a deemed fault or discrepancy generally does so to overcompensate for guilt-ridden moral failings of their own.

I fear the 'holier than thou' individual who outwardly exudes a high religious standing and propagates those values a bit too much. It's people like these who usually hide behind a curtain of deceit or sick moral depravity (i.e. perversion). I reserve that there are people who don't have this dual standard, but then those sort of people also generally keep their moral standards to themselves and rarely, if ever, use it to judge others.

Ask anyone if he or she would steal, I guarantee no one will answer the question in the affirmative, even though they might do otherwise in reality. Most everyone knows what the moral thing to do is, so it is duty to agree.

A Talatism truth is that there is a all-encompassing balance between sound and action within each person - the more vocal of morals the less practicing and vice versa.

In that line, non-secular states project a heightened sense of morality because the morally bankrupt politicians and institutions mollycoddle the general population with false moral values.

And as if to prove the point, there have been reports that the Malaysian police have allegedly chained up and marked (i.e. branded) the bodies of 30 foreign women, detained for prostitution.

Malaysian lawyers, politicians and activists have criticised the police for their actions.

It appears that when the police carried out a late night raid on a high-end nightclub in the northern state of Penang last Thursday, they arrested 29 women from China and one from Vietnam, along with eight Malaysian men.

What's more, a local newspaper reported that police officers went undercover at the club for a week before the raid. How wonderful of them to take so much time and effort to gather information for a raid; one wonders whether they have same sincerity and involvement when they raid, say, a smuggler's den.

Newspapers carried images of the women bound up with a long chain and marked with either a tick or an X on their chest and forehead. What is significant is that the women were just suspects and had not even been charged.

Aljazeera, which carried the report as well, on its website reported:

“Police have defended their actions, saying the markings served as a way to identify the women.

“Ayub Yaakob, Penang police chief, told the New Straits Times that the situation was chaotic, with the suspects trying to escape.

“He said police were forced to mark the women after some donned new clothes to try and blend in with other female patrons of the club.

“He also said the women had wrecked many marriages and that police had received numerous complaints from wives of men who sought their services.”

I think one Malaysian opposition lawmaker said it best when she criticised that the police had used “such dehumanising tactics as a show of power and moral superiority over their detainees.”

QED.