Should youths be restricted ? March 17, 2009
Posted by Shweta in Dimaag ki Batti.trackback
hmm … interesting topic …
Let me try n present both views of this topic …
Ayes first …
Restrictions are necessary to impose so that youth can be kept in control. There are many types of restrictions: legal, moral, ethical, individual, family imposed, etc…etc…
e.g. Restrictions regarding marriageable age, age for voting, age for consumption of alcoholic beverages, smoking and other tobacco products, restrictions for monogamy, individual restrictions regarding behaviour and living, conversational restrictions like not uttering cuss words during normal and formal conversation, etc…
These are good as they chart a person’s life on the good path … the path approved by and generally followed in the society in which we live. These make a person likeable and approachable in the society. These make a human being. Not having any restrictions would create havoc. Imagine a situation wherein people behave as they please with no fear of rules, regulations and laws. No bindings, nothing … a situation akin to “jungle raaj”.
Society demands its own rules and regulations to be followed and youth are a part of the society and the future responsible citizens of the country. They are the ones to guide the nation’s course. If youth are not restricted, then in today’s world of shrinking borders, we can see teenagers flaunting pistols in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other … not to mention the multitude of rings of smoke. No restriction for coming back to home on time, behaving cordially, education for atleast 18 years of life … the very imagination is enough to raise one’s hair on end.
Hence, restrictions are necessary for youth to be accountable.
Opposing view …
Restrictions restrict a person’s imagination. Restrictions bind the free human mind. Restrictions set the borders beyond which the mind is prohibited from wandering. Restrictions restrict the mind’s leap.
Had there been restrictions to innovate, the wonderful and life-changing inventions would not have been possible. People would not have thought beyond the obvious. There minds would not have ventured outside the ordinary fearing the restrictions. Of course, everything has a good and bad side to it. But, it is for youths to self realise as to what extent they can go to follow their will … and how they want to lead their lives. The freedom should not be mistaken for absolute anarchy.
It is for youths themselves to guard their appearance and behaviour and living so as not to offend the general sentiments of the society but restrictions do not go anywhere in guaranteeing this. You cannot stop a young person from following his peer into a entertainment place just on the pretext of restrictions. It is for that young mind to decide what is good and what is not so good for him.
Responsibility is necessary to inculcate among the youths but it cannot be imposed by means of restrictions.
Phew … I can’t believe I’ve written so much … so, now that my brain is highly exhausted because of this over-exertion … let me allow it to relax a bit … you can post your views till my little brain gets up and blogging … 
Like evryhting else in life even restriction is like a coin with 2 sides….
when applied to the right agegroup and at the right time can keep our society follow certain norms but when forced upon someone especially who is not anymore in an impressionable age can do serious damage to our society or to the person involved.
Incidents like the Bangalore Pub incident or some cases in Patna where couples sitting in the park are humilatingly slapped in public are very shameful for our society where we boast about being a democratic nation.
As responsible citizens of our nation its on us to decide and understand when and where to restrict ourselves.