Sir, as per your wish, I will submit my answer paper now.
Do you mean to say that the College is meant only to impart Academic Education and not moral values ?
Yes, morality is based on many variables and is not a constant. A college has to nurture the mind, not instill with a totalitarian attitude.
And I know that imparting is different from enforcing.
This college has gone one step ahead by enforcing discipiine.
Enforcement of discipline should not lie with the college.
And you mean to say that the college is not liable to enforce the value-laden laws among its studnets?
You are arguing just for argument's sake. Let us suppose that in a particular school where they admit students of all religions, but enforce only one particular religion's moral code and edicts, would you nod your head in acceptance?
I think every public is bound to enforce such laws, besides abiding, anbody can enforce such value-laden laws.
Such thinking may well be the cause of "katta panchayats", "honour killing", "moral-policing" etc. What is needed is to understand that there are boundaries beyond which it is the realm of the individual to do as he desires. An inability to tolerate an individual's wish is not morality. It is simply anger. Anger that someone is doing what the other cannot do.
And you have not answered my question directly Sir.
What prevented them getting married and remain a law abiding citizen?
I have answered it sir, but your moral code, perhaps, did not accept it. The answer is - it is their wish. What they chose to do is not subject to our ratification. Their wish need not be bound within our ethics !
What is our moral responsibility?
This is quite a question for which we may not have any satisfactory answer. Best is to respect individual wishes as long as they do not inflict any physical harm (on themselves or others).
Are we not supposed to live in the society by following strctly the standards of ethics and morality set by various value-laden laws?.
No sir. Who told you that?
p.s. when I saw "value-laden", it was ominously similar to "bin-laden" !
Will any Member of the society whole heartedly permit his daughter/son to elope with his/her batch mate?
Who is a parent, or for that matter, anybody, to PERMIT an adult (whether it be his daughter or son) to do something of his/her own volition? I think as parents one can only give the best emotional, rational and educational background to a child.
If the Correspondetn don't take such a disciplinary action to mend a student, then who will act?
The whole point is that there was no need to act.
I think every student has a moral responsibility to the follow typesof behaviour deemd quite acceptable and desirable in the society we live.
I highlighted the part because it emphasizes the basis on which you drew the conclusion that every student should follow certain protocols of society. Well, people think differently, and the same exercise probably channeled the students to the conclusion that they chose. What is your problem with their thinking? After all, it is your thinking vs their thinking !
If I am wrong, please enlighten me...
I have tried.