On the present day, we are plagued with increasing social issues among the youths (both teenagers and young adults alike). Abortions, gangterism, drug abuse and such have only increase from time to time even with all the awareness campaigns, you have to admit that its not getting any better. Alas, I am not to talk about those but the reason behind these problems, the disease which bring these blight, the root of all this evil. I am talking about the deteriorating moral compass or what we call conscience.
For those who don’t know, moral compass is a metaphor used to describe the sanctity of the mind and rational thinking. It is this invisible hand that dictates our behavior and how we react in certain if not most situations in life. A pure minded youth would most likely live their life positively, without pride or prejudice, doing things for the good of it and not for worldly benefits, being a both dutiful child and student. However when a person's mind is corrupted and their moral compass distorted, they began seeing the world in a different, more sarcastic way. They become selfish, self-centered and stubborn with increasing exposure to corruption. They take things lightly and do not consider what others may feel due to their action. These morally numb groups of people are the ones that contributed to the existence and increment to the social issues today. Let us look on its cause and effect.
The cause is pretty simple but its effect is as deep as a tumor. Like the phrase "See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil", these three factors affect our moral compass greatly. This is the very reason why the censorship of the media needs to be enforced and not be taken lightly, why kids should not watch adult rated movies or programs and why parents must safeguard the internet boundaries in their home and cybercafés ban minors from entering. Any and all reading materials that contain explicit use language or terms must be kept away from the young ones for this very purpose, to ensure the purity of mind within the youths. These days the restrictions do not seem strict or people just ignore it for their own gain. The distribution of inappropriate materials to minors has caused an immature exposure to negative and lucid thoughts thus create discord within their mind and corrode their conscience. With this they become more impulsive and unstable as their judgement becomes more and more clouded.
When all these negative thoughts combine the effects are socially catastrophic. They become rebellious and began disobeying their elders, through this, social issues such as bullying and gangsterism arises. Not only is that, but the social barriers between genders that keep them in order dissolved by the idea of ‘freedom’ spread through uncensored media which led to birth of out-of-wedlock children and abortions. When these youth are stressed with their life either due to problems at school or at home they began to search for a way to release stress, mostly in dangerous and destructive ways as they had seen in the media thus leading to problems such as drug abuses. These are but the beginning of much more chaos and disorder that is bound to appear in the near future. Authorities need to reinforce the current media censorship and parents need to be more watchful of their children if any of these problems are to be solved effectively. For now we youths need to resist as much as we can from these temptations that had ‘haunted’ ever since the existence of the mass media.
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