Discipline : The Most Humane Attribute

Discipline is a self-imposed restrain on oneself chosen by humanity when it decided to stay put at fixed places along water streams about 2,500 years back in socially cohesive groups. Without this restrain, humanity is as wild as wild animals who believe in snatching things from others for gaining individually. Even in those days, many races chose to remain wild and wandering and depending on snatching from others whenever and howsoever possible. Might was the only right for them. As compared to these wild races, those who decided to settle down were less violent and believed in thinking in terms of morality before every action of theirs. This tendency of intellectualism made them physically weaker than those of the wild races. The latter used to take advantage of it in looting whatever the former used to accumulate for their lean periods. This trend continues even today to a lesser extent than that in those days.  

Discipline is respecting rights of other persons just like those of the self, thus discipline has a social angle in all its considerations and implementations. For this reason, discipline is also termed as social-discipline. It guides a person on how to move with others without arousing mutual dis-pleasures or disharmony. For this, all others are put in two classes - those considered to be on the right path in their conducts and those with illicit conducts. The social discipline covers both the classes to deal harmoniously with those on the right path, and to oppose those with nefarious dealings. This requires the person to be judicious about others and to have courage to oppose the culprits. Since this courage is lacking in most of the persons, the present social norm has been to keep off with those with doubtful conducts. This has encouraged the evil-doers to go on moving on their misconducts without any check by the society itself. 


Social discipline puts the responsibility of keeping the whole society on the right track on shoulders of each adult person for doing his/her best in three prong strategy -

1. To be on the right moral path by him/herself,
2. To oppose all those not on the right path in order to bring them back on the right path, and 
3. To guide the children - as future citizens under formation, to get the right education, training and inspiration.      

These duties are designed for taking care that the human society shall always be on the right path in its march of civilization against time. Let us do so.