Don’t compromise moral code of ethics
There are very good reasons why harmful practices are morally frowned upon and criminalised
Almost every debatable human activity under the sun has been legalised in some country or area in the world.
This includes pornography, drugs, prostitution, sex between minors, assisted suicide and genetic interbreeding of humans and animals.
Those not willing to admit to any moral code of behaviour that forms the basis of law, attempt to bend it or break it, irrespective of predictable negative consequences they don’t want to carry.
That is when they vigorously start riding the hobby horse of legalisation and human rights, as the answer to having their cake and eating it.
Those who oppose this mindset are often termed undemocratic, narrow-minded, selfrighteous or bigoted.
Recent articles in the Zululand Observer highlighting the enormous proportions of the clandestine sex industry and drug trafficking in Richards Bay, were again met with suggestions that prostitution and dagga should be legalised, taxed and regulated.
Legalisation of such activities will neither curb nor stop them, just as the welllegislated policy regarding the legal sale of alcohol does not prevent the proliferation of illegal shebeens.
In a country gripped by poverty, murder, rape, exploitation, substance abuse, human trafficking and corruption, the worst thing we could do is to cut off the already shortened arm of the law.
There are very good reasons why harmful practices are morally frowned upon and criminalised.
Legalisation of practices which have been forbidden for millennia, is saddling some very dark horses.
In these strange times, flogging dead horses may cause them to come to life with four riders.
Those organisations that deal with the flotsam and jetsam of the drug, sex and alcohol industries are unanimous that strong law enforcement, along with education and counselling, is now needed more than ever.
