Feel good - ism

It is really really frustrating !

Point is, it is simply impossible to reform society through legislation,but people being control freaks by instinct and lazy by newton's first law, put the cause before effect and happily mess up the precedence with antecedence.

If any improvement in status of women has happened in India post Independence, it is not because of laws against dowry, or against abortion of female foetus. It is because of increasing level of female education on one hand and greater participation in income generation by females.

Similarly even with laws specifically against persecution of Dalits, it is really hard to tell the difference due to these laws. Wherever the improvement has occurred , it is again because of increasing economic and political participation.

It is therefore astonishing, when people continue to stick to failed solution.
It is really simple. To reform society is an arduous task, it requires creating the conditions so that the powerless acquires powers, to bring about infrastructure to change those conditions.

Merely legislating will not eradicate child labour or poverty or domestic abuse.
What however it can do is make one feel good, considering how one is indoctrinated by virtue of superficial activism on one hand and guilt on other.