RDM NEWS SWEKEEN may 03 2020

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RDM WEEKEND NEWS
NEWS SPECIAL COLLABORATION RDM
CIVILITY AND CULTURE OF LEGALITY.
By: Mtro. César A. Castro
When we want to talk about the urgency of forming
and reinforcing a culture of civility and legality
among the population, we cannot omit to refer to the
main problems that currently affect Mexican society,
from the increase in violence to attacks on personnel
from Health, all this in the midst of an unprecedented
situation in which we are all immersed; Likewise, we
must not forget that last month large mobilizations
were carried out, both in our country and in many
others, to protest against violence against women, a
situation that, unfortunately, at this time continue to
suffer many families within from their homes (the
monster at home), as a consequence of the
confinement derived from the pandemic that we are
going through.
And why we can not stop thinking about these events,
because due to these and other events, there is an
absolute disdain for any established legal order, as
well as the absence of a minimum of urbanity in our
relationships, so we must start to urgently spread
among more and more people a civic education that
not only consists in the hollow veneration of national
symbols, but has the mission of preventing acts like
these by raising awareness among the population
about the enormous benefits of complying with the
rules, the laws, being attentive and considerate of
each other, which is a basic condition of
understanding and respect among all.
Barbaric acts such as those mentioned above, because
they cannot be described in any other way, and like
many more that unfortunately are constantly repeated
around the world, are the result of the absence of civic
values such as honesty, respect and solidarity.
But not only tragedies that have stained our history
with blood are examples of illegality, so are the
thousands of daily events that are committed
consciously every day, violating the rules that we
have given ourselves for our healthy social
coexistence, and that at the end of the day if we added
all these "little" behaviors, the result would be the
same, an antisocial tragedy that equally shamefully
stains our civilization.
If we really want to take root in the sense of citizen
responsibility to observe the laws, which implies
fulfilling our obligations and respecting the rights of
others, we must start at home with the little ones by
teaching them, with our example, that the rules of Home
are to be complied with, not to be negotiated or breached
depending on the circumstances and our convenience,
that agreements between people are also rules that must
be respected and that their compliance is not subject to
the will of only one of the parties.
That is why just as we must be firm in reprimanding our
children for disobeying an order or not complying with a
rule at home, in the same way we must show firmness
when fulfilling a promise made to them or rewarding
them for their good behavior, in this way the little ones
will understand the value of respect for agreements.
The Law, with a capital letter, is the best instrument
created by man to prevent and avoid his self-destruction,
to counteract his natural selfishness that leads him to
trample on the dignity and rights of others if it is to
achieve any benefit, it is the powerful shield of reason
and arguments against the brutality that destroys the lives
of innocent human beings, against the cynical corruption
that stops the progress of societies. Violence is the
opposite of civility and legality; it is the rule of law of the
strongest above justice and reason.
A society that respects the dignity of all its members as
well as its legal order is one that highly values values
such as freedom, equality, justice, democracy, tolerance,
solidarity, is an educated society and concerned with
preserving their way of life and for building day by day a
peaceful and harmonious social coexistence.
A society aware of the value of norms is one that
understands that civic education cannot consist solely of
paying public tributes each week in schools to the
national heroes, it is one in which its citizens know very
well what respect for women, minorities and the weakest,
in which they give way to each other, in which they do
not throw garbage or chewing gums on the streets, they
do not paint on the fences, they do not spit on public
roads, they obey the traffic signs, do not attack with
mischief believing that they are smarter than the one in
front, their corporations do not seek profit at any price
even at the cost of breaking the laws and mistreating their
collaborators, in short, it is a society in the one that its
authorities are the first to set the example of what
urbanity should be, acting with adherence to legality.
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