Comments on: Get out of my bedroom http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Shanti http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-481 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-481 Yaz - I agree that it is ridiculous for people to try and impose their version of morality on the whole society. This is the biggest problem I have had with the VHP-wallahs and their Valentine crusades. Yaz - I agree that it is ridiculous for people to try and impose their version of morality on the whole society. This is the biggest problem I have had with the VHP-wallahs and their Valentine crusades.

]]> by: Gautam http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-482 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-482 Though John Itty cannot be condoned for having tried this stunt, I'd like to ask a broader question. Is it possible that Mr. Itty is trying to bring some degree of coherence in his weltanschaung, I mean could have prescribed such behaviour as socially unacceptable for his own children and in order to remain consistent with his existing views, he seeks to extend them to society at large. It might be easy to dismiss him as a kook, or a fear him as a potential Modi, but what about the many people out there who really beleive that the norms they follow should be followed by everyone else. Are they exceptionally unreasonable or unusual in this regard? Also I don't think dismissing Mr. Itty's ideas as antiquated really does anything for Yazad's argument, I don't think antiquity has anything to do with the strength or weakness of an argument, but the internal logic and its implications on the problem at large do. Though John Itty cannot be condoned for having tried this stunt, I’d like to ask a broader question. Is it possible that Mr. Itty is trying to bring some degree of coherence in his weltanschaung, I mean could have prescribed such behaviour as socially unacceptable for his own children and in order to remain consistent with his existing views, he seeks to extend them to society at large.

It might be easy to dismiss him as a kook, or a fear him as a potential Modi, but what about the many people out there who really beleive that the norms they follow should be followed by everyone else. Are they exceptionally unreasonable or unusual in this regard?

Also I don’t think dismissing Mr. Itty’s ideas as antiquated really does anything for Yazad’s argument, I don’t think antiquity has anything to do with the strength or weakness of an argument, but the internal logic and its implications on the problem at large do.

]]> by: Nitin http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-483 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-483 Pre-marital & Extra-marital affairs are of private concern; the good Professor had no business imposing his morality on others. I should think Rahul Gandhi should sue Itty for invasion of privacy/libel. A respected national newspaper can do service to the nation by focussing on policies and issues. (The Rahul Gandhi escapade can probably fit in as a small snippet on the gossip pages, not Page One) Pre-marital & Extra-marital affairs are of private concern; the good Professor had no business imposing his morality on others. I should think Rahul Gandhi should sue Itty for invasion of privacy/libel.

A respected national newspaper can do service to the nation by focussing on policies and issues. (The Rahul Gandhi escapade can probably fit in as a small snippet on the gossip pages, not Page One)

]]> by: MadMan http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-484 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-484 Morality is not the business of the state, and this is a country where even the government of India says that homosexuality should not be legalised because <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/08sex.htm" rel="nofollow">society disapproves of such behaviour</a>. Sadly, I don't think that the tendency of our people to impose their own moral views on others is going to change in a hurry. Morality is not the business of the state, and this is a country where even the government of India says that homosexuality should not be legalised because society disapproves of such behaviour.

Sadly, I don’t think that the tendency of our people to impose their own moral views on others is going to change in a hurry.

]]> by: Leela http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-485 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/02/get-out-of-my-bedroom/#comment-485 Hey Yazad, Point well made. I thought there was too much 'spleen venting' too, if you know what i mean. Hey Yazad, Point well made. I thought there was too much ’spleen venting’ too, if you know what i mean.

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