Ragging the menace

Ragging exposes the truth behind the argument that students studying in colleges are mature enough to decide what is good for them and there is no need to have moral policing on them. Some meaningful corrections are required in the statements such as that they are mature enough to decide whom to vote, what to wear, how much and what to drink, when to party, when to have sex and how to have it. Main argument in favor of this is that if they are indulging in something that is not illegal then no one has the authority to stop them. It is disturbing to notice that these days every issue in a 'civilized?' society is getting decided by its legality but not for setting a moral standard. In the cases of ragging, the fact is that some students cross even the legal border while exercising their freedom to have interaction with juniors. They are unable to restrain themselves while enjoying their freedom. And this is the point where we all feel that there is a need to frame a law to restrain them.
Incidences of ragging are now going too far. There is no doubt that some immediate steps are required to be taken in this respect. A promising life coming to a sad end is a huge loss to our society and country. At least now UGC is in the process of framing some regulations that would make the law against ragging effective.
As a matter of fact our society is based on hierarchical structure. We believe in senior-junior concept. Stability of our society is based on this model. We expect juniors to respect seniors. Ideally this respect comes from within when juniors observe the sacrifices of their seniors for them. However the age at which students get admission to a school or a college, they happen to be in an impatient state of mind. They want to earn respect from their juniors at any cost and that too in a very short time. Ragging is the manifestation of this attitude.
It is well known law of physics that a system finds its equilibrium by finding a state of lowest energy. In the language of science a chaotic state is the most stable state having lowest energy and largest entropy. And every system wants to achieve this state if left to its freedom.
It is therefore, one must understand that freedom can never insure a civilized society. You need laws to make any society civilized. Arguments such as that college-going students are mature enough to decide what is right and what is wrong might help a group in achieving their sick agenda of pushing sex, wine and violence into this age but the hard fact is that the society should never abdicate its responsibility of telling them the difference between right and wrong. Now the time has come when they must be told what is legal and what is not.
Our society has a responsibility to frame laws and regulations to help all of us, irrespective of our age, in distinguishing between right and wrong. Nothing is illegal till it is decided by a rule of law. What is legal today may become illegal tomorrow and vice-versa. The society has the responsibility of identifying issues on which rules are required to be made to declare an act illegal. In the absence of such legal moral policing the "illegal moral policing" has started gaining ground in alarming proportions.
Since we never bothered to have teachers with high moral values, we have crossed the stage where we can expect to curb this menace of ragging with the help of moral policing by teachers and authorities in any educational institution. We are left with no option but to have a tough law which must be strictly observed to eradicate this menace.