Compare india/pak to the west
Question for the desis living in the west
I am talking about basic human qualities not generally needing the danda of the strict law implementation
Please keep religion out of it - no one can read let alone understand / implement the Quran if he is illiterate
Yes.
I think education is a measure of all that you mentioned. But this statement is conditional.
Let me explain:
1.
Traditional societies without education and more rural are
more ethical/moral/social law abiding than transitional societies. In traditional societies, the concept/institution of honour and shame forces people to behave in a socially acceptable manner by and large.
2.
Transitional societies - where the population is split between educated and non educated, urban and rural.
These societies have highest problems of morality, legality among other things.
This is because in such societies, the educated find ways and loopholes to exploit the non educated. Those with malafide intentions(rich or poor, educated or uneducated) are able to carry out their agendas because there is no instrument of control over them.
The old institutions of honour, face & shame are diluted and even removed as people in urban centers don't have their relatives or are relatively more
anonymous than in traditional societies like villages. Thus old restrictions/instruments of control are no longer binding on the people as they used to be.
And the
new Institutions of the State which though present and meant to effectively
replace the old social institutions of honour/shame and are meant to deter those who have malafide intentions, are
not effective. This is because the institutions of such States are also not fully developed and are thus used for exploitation as well.
Thus morality/rule of law/etc is lowest in such societies compared to traditional societies and developed/completely educated societies.
3.
Developed/Completely educated societies -
Majority of the people here are educated,
know their rights, also know what to demand of state institutions and force them to act, thus making state institutions become competent and capable and deter those who have malafide intentions.
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Now countries like India and Pakistan are in phase 2 ie Transitional societies.
So Society type 1 - ie the Traditional Society looks better because it had better behaviour, better morality and better ethics.
However, the same would be achieved once countries like India and Pakistan get their population really educated and move towards Society type 3 - the Developed/Educated Society.
I can give so many
many example of how institutions in India are slowly and
one by one(yes, its
that slow) becoming better because of fierce,
massive public pressure and scrutiny on them. Ofcourse few get worse with time as well but they are much lesser in number.
But as more and more people in India are getting educated, society is evolving, people are literally
forcing State Institutions to become better and provide better service. This is a fight as those at the top of the society want the institutions to keep being malafide, and so changing each institution is a whole new fight each time. But is it is happening right here.
And once a critical number of important Institutions in India become better, they will exert a powerful force that will make the rest of the institutions change faster.
Ask me and I will give you examples of the Institutions that have become better and worse in India to illustrate my point. And I can give you diverse examples from bad social behaviour like rape to judicial Institutions to electoral Institutions.
And this is
exactly how the Western societies also developed. They underwent the same transitions. Their people also fought hard to change their institutions one by one till an eco-system of good institutions developed.
And the thing about this is, humans generally behave better/more humane when they feel that there is justice in the system. If you make the system better, the humans will also start becoming better which will make the institutions even better. Its a virtuous circle.
Similarly, there is also a vicious cycle. The people will become more brutal, barbaric, less ethical if the system starts failing them, then the system starts failing more because the people are becoming worse. No one can say what comes first, its a cumulative effect.
All this happens as more and more people get educated.
