#Moral Fabric

[seemabhatnagar]

"Judiciary Intervenes: Petitioner’s Trust Activities Deemed Harmful to Public Morality"

In a surprising legal twist, the Madras High Court recently dismissed petitions challenging police actions and charges against an individual. The court’s decision was based on compelling evidence that pointed to serious offenses, including the potential exploitation of a minor. Notably, the petitioner had sought protection to run a brothel, a request that raised eyebrows in legal circles.

The court’s reasoning emphasized the need to maintain the reputation of advocates in society. It urged the Bar Council to enroll only graduates from reputable law colleges, highlighting the importance of legal education and ethical conduct.

As part of its ruling, the court demanded that the petitioner provide proof of enrollment and educational qualifications. This case serves as a stark reminder that legal actions can have far-reaching consequences, and the judiciary remains vigilant in upholding justice.

Raja Murrugan v. The SP Nagercoil Kanyakumari District & 2 others

Crl. Pet. 9399/2024 & WP 13963/2024

Before Madras High Court

Heard by Hon'ble Mr. Justice B. Pugalendhi J

The petitioner, Raja Murrugan, filed two petitions: a criminal original petition for quashing the FIR lodged against him alleging false accusations and harassment by the police, and a writ petition seeking protection for his trust, "Friends For Ever Trust," which provides services including consensual sexual activities.

Facts:

The petitioner claims to be the founder of "Friends For Ever Trust," registered under Reg.No.147 of 2022, promoting adult recreation and related activities, including oil baths and consensual sex services.

On 17.02.2024, the police searched the trust premises, arrested the petitioner, and registered a case under various sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The petitioner was arrested and later released on bail. He alleges that the case was orchestrated by his ex-wife using a minor girl to frame him.

Legal Issue: Whether the activities conducted by the petitioner's trust constitute legal consensual services or illegal activities under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act and POCSO Act.

Points of Arguments

Petitioner's arguments- The petitioner vigorously defended actions as consensual and well within the bounds of privacy. The petitioner submitted that the activities of the "Friends For Ever Trust" were lawful and did not constitute a criminal offense.

Consensual and Legal: The petitioner maintained that the activities involved consenting adults and were conducted within a framework of trust. He argued that these private interactions should not be subject to state interference or criminalization.

Privacy Rights: Citing the Indian Constitution’s recognition of the Right to Privacy, the petitioner contended that their personal liberty included the freedom to make choices—specifically, engaging in consensual activities with other adults. He argued that the state’s actions is an infringement on his fundamental right.

False Complaint Allegations: The petitioner further claimed that the police action stemmed from a false complaint orchestrated by his ex-wife. He challenged the legitimacy of the charges and emphasized the need for a fair investigation.

Consensual Nature of Activities: The petitioner asserted that the trust provided a platform for consenting adults to engage in relationships and activities of their choice. He argued that since all activities were consensual and among adults, they fell within the realm of personal freedom and should not be criminalized.

Absence of Illegal Actions: The petitioner maintained that there was no evidence of illegal actions, exploitation, or coercion in the trust's activities. He emphasized that the trust was not involved in any activities that could be classified as criminal under Indian law, such as trafficking, forced labor, or any other form of exploitation.

Argument of the State

Legitimate Investigation: The State justified initiating the investigation based on credible information pointing to potential illegal activities within the “Friends For Ever Trust.”

Concerns of Illegality: Despite the trust’s claims of operating within legal bounds, serious concerns arose. Allegations hinted at activities that might breach Indian laws, including immoral trafficking or exploitation.

Public Interest and Protection: The State underscored its duty to safeguard the public interest and prevent harm to societal morals. The investigation aimed to shield vulnerable individuals and maintain order.

Criminal Proceedings Justified: Filing the FIR and pursuing criminal proceedings were grounded in prima facie evidence gathered during the investigation. Authorities acted to uphold the law.

No Fundamental Rights Violation: The State refuted any infringement on the petitioner’s fundamental rights. Privacy and personal liberty, they argued, don’t shield illegal activities or actions contrary to public welfare.

Court's Observation

The court expressed shock at the petitioner's claim of running a brothel under the guise of a trust and his purported status as an advocate. The allegations involved immoral trafficking and potential exploitation of women under the guise of running a charitable trust, which is a serious offense. The nature of the allegations, if proven true, could indicate severe misconduct and abuse of trust, as well as violations of legal and moral standards.

The court noted the discrepancies in the petitioner's statements and the seriousness of the allegations involving a minor.

The court emphasized the need for maintaining moral sanctity and preventing exploitation under the guise of consensual activities.

The court was concerned about the actual activities carried out by the "Friends For Ever Trust." Although the trust was purported to be involved in charitable activities, there were serious allegations suggesting that the trust's operations may have included illegal activities. The court likely found it disturbing that such activities could be taking place under the cover of a charitable organization, which generally enjoys a certain level of public trust and immunity.

The court was shocked by the implications of the case for public morality and the enforcement of laws protecting vulnerable individuals from exploitation. The potential involvement of a trust in illegal activities, especially one that may exploit vulnerable women, raises significant concerns about the protection of societal values and the effectiveness of law enforcement.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Something something Merlin is Arthur's bane.

[chewy-jeeby2]

yeah

[moralyquestionableblondemen]

My beautiful beautiful wife made me this stupid ass lil guy for Christmas and I wanna rip his head out and eat it. Love her. Love him. You should also be loving them both.

@itty-bitty-sunshine best wife ever love you mwa mwa mwa mwa x10.000

[stellar-collective]

Solaris: *posts a super low quality image to the group chat* Juniper: if i had a dollar for every pixel in this image i’d have 15 cents Solaris: if i had a dollar for every ounce of rage i felt in my body after i read this text i would have enough money to buy a laser to fire at you Prism: actually i did the math, Juniper would have 225$, not 0.15$.  Juniper: sis i’m right here… Phoenix: if i had a dollar i would buy a can of soda :) Ollie: while you’re there will you buy me an apply juice please? Phoenix: sorry i only have a dollar Ollie: :( Prism: hey, i just realized, Juniper would have 22,500$ because it’s a dollar for every pixel, not a cent Phoenix: if i had 22,500$ i’d buy a can of soda and an apply juice Fabricator: you can buy anything you want with 22,500$ Reginald: yeah and they want soda and apply juice Right Robot: apply juice to what Hivemind: directly to the forehead Morales: great chat everyone

[nattikay]

ear

The ears are definitely the part of the head that I've been dreading the most, because I've always struggled to make them work. I was never 100% satisfied with the ear results on past heads, so this time I'm trying a different method. It's based on TinnatuPaws's ear patterns, not actually printing and using any of them directly because I wanted that front border to have a slightly different shape, but taking the general method/idea. Took a couple hours to put together a working pattern because I only had a vague idea of what I was doing, and I guess the final look is pretty similar to TinnatuPaws's canine ear design anyways so perhaps it would've been easier to just use that one directly but w/e too late now. I think it turned out pretty alright, but of course the real test will come once I actually put fur on it.

These ears also probably look a tad on the large side for a standard housecat--that was intentional; I'm a bit worried about this head base being a bit too small compared to the other parts of the suit so I'm gonna try compensating by exaggerating the ears, head floof, and cheek floofs a bit. This base already has proportionally very large eyes so I think I can get away with it. Fingers crossed!

I did try on my previous head with the new body the other day to get a better idea of the size ratio and it looked alright, though while the base for my previous head is similar in size to this new one, I do think it might be sliiiiiightly larger overall, even accounting for the fact that it has fur and this one doesn't yet. Hopefully the difference won't be all that significant and I won't be walking around with a comically tiny head, but as with the ear method, the real test won't be till I actually fur it. So....we shall see.

[thebad-lydrawn-sanses]

Is Error in one of the Teams Or is he a loney guy?

And what does everyone fears/likes the most?

Killer: i like Nightmare (platonically) and i fucking hate paintbrushes Cross: oh, i fear cows and like tacos and chocolate. the only thing i like more than these two things was beating the shit out of Ink. it was funny and worth the scars Dust: abandonment Dust: … Dust: … Dust: i like…d Dust: …when Cross beat the shit out of Ink

(Horror likes making nests out of blankets/pillows and fears not having a steady food source. Currently taking a well-deserved nap.)

[mostlyihyperfixate]

I can't explain what it is, but there is something very funny to me that the big secret thing that Phoenix has been working on this whole time...

...is installing the jury system.

[lord-squiggletits]

Also I'm just gonna say that even if it were true that Rodimus was a """""true Prime"""" and Optimus wasn't, that isn't as much of an L for Optimus as people seemingly want it to be.

Like so you're telling me Optimus was never a chosen hero and the burden of the Matrix/leadership pained him morally, emotionally, and physically, yet he still survived 4 million years of war?

You're telling me he wasn't God's Designated Special Boy but he still tried his best to live up to that impossible ideal to the point of developing serious depression and suicidal ideation as a result of so much goddamn loneliness and self-doubt?

Optimus wasn't a "true Prime" and yet he still believed in ideals of reconciliation and ending the cycle of violence? He wasn't a true Prime but he still stayed on Cybertron trying to fix a broken, broken society while also trying to stop Earth from being invaded for a second time? He didn't even need to do that he could've just stayed in exile which he was originally supposed to do all along, and which he would've personally preferred?? You're telling me that Optimus wasn't Primus' Specialest Boy And Chosen Leader and yet he stepped into leadership anyways bc he perceived that there was injustice to be fixed??

Wow yeah I guess Optimus is just such an inferior leader, clearly his actual actions/moral character as person don't matter and his "worthiness" should be judged solely on whether the Magic Cybertronian 8 Ball liked him or not.

[carverl]

I made a thing

[oopey-doopey]

Spiderverse au where Miles and The Spot actually team up as Miles is so betrayed and hurt by how everyone wanted him to accept his dad’s fate and don’t take him seriously or treat him like a mistake that he confides in the only other person that truly gets that in a fucked up way.

They plan to get rid of all the other Spiderverses so his universe is technically the focal point and universe that everything branches from so he can effectively decide what is canon in the Spiderverse and what isn’t.

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Caught a glimpse of the final frontier.

[unfortunately-obsessed]

Miguel is an antagonist, not a villain.

Kingpin wanted his family back, and he was willing to sacrifice everything to have it. He failed.

Miguel did what Kingpin wanted to do, but he wasn't willing to sacrifice everything for it. Indeed, he didn't even act on that thought until his variant died. He probably assumed that he was doing something good, in a way, preventing Gabriella from turning into an orphan without no one to lean on.

He might have rationalized all he wanted, yes. But this didn't mean that what he did was right.

And, the thing is, Miguel not only got punished for this, but he was punished with a far greater punishment than his acts: being responsible for a death of a whole dimension (which includes trillions of lives, if you count not only Earth, but also the other planets...)

But he also felt something Kingpin never felt: regret. Villains don't feel regret.

He might be wrong about the Canon, he did say things he shouldn't have to Miles, and he definitely shouldn't have choke-slammed a kid.

(There's a note here, also, because Miguel might not be the strongest hero on the SS, but he might be the most aggressive one on his combat style. And, because of that, it is clear that he didn't want to permanently injury Miles, much less kill. He probably was fighting to either capture or knock out Miles. And that is, Miguel knew, or at least had an idea, of how much Morales could take in a fight. After all, he is surrounded by heroes with the same set of powers and durability.)

Y'all guys shouldn't forget he still is an antagonist – someone that opposes the goals of the main character, Miles. And I'm not trying to justify his acts.

At least, Miguel is trying to do the right thing. He has a idiotic view of what is right, and he is desperately trying to prevent what happened to him and doing a bunch of things he shouldn't.

But it's like I'm seeing the whole drama with Gwen again. People said she was the villain because she made mistakes, because she didn't told Miles about the Canon and didn't visit him for a whole year. But why people would throw all the hate on her?

She was under scrutinizing pressure, an imminent death threat hanging over her head, homeless, and went through the trauma of he father pointing and shooting a gun to her.

Miguel nor Gwen's traumas made it all rainbows and sunshine. It doesn't erase their wrongs. Gwen's wrongs can't even compare to Miguel's, actually. He is in another level.

But you never did something you shouldn't have? Never stood still when you should have done something, because of fear? Never made a mistake? Never thought you were doing something right and was actually hurting people around you?

So, no, neither of them are villains.

Because villains are those characters with malicious intent, who not only opposes the protagonist, but also wants to do something morally bad, for example, kill a innocent person to reach a goal.

Oh, do you know who fits this description?

Spot.

Yeah, he's the villain. He's not a silly little guy. You can tell whichever story you want with him in it, of course, make him as silly as you will on your fics, commit to the bit! I'm not saying you shouldn't interpret him as you want him to be. He doesn't exist, after all.

He still is the villain of atsv tho

[milimeters-morales]

[stellar-collective]

a hivemind drawing. perchance. :3?

plus a Fabricator bc i think that their dynamic would be really silly :3

[moongothic]

So amongst my mom's fabric stash I found this awkward roll of cowprint plushie fabric. It was like 140cm long, but only 40 wide, and I just. I had no idea what the hell I should do with it. Like I don't want to throw it away or anything, that'd be a waste, but because it was such an awkward quantity, what could you even do with it..?

And then the idea of "what if I tried to make plushies out of it?" wriggled its way into my mind and. I dunno man, I dunno, I couldn't think of anything else, and to be fair, trying to make a plushie sounded like fun in theory, a refreshing experiment, I'd get to try doing something new and different.

So I bullshitted a shark pattern together and go going

Also I did buy some basic white fleece so the tummy wouldn't have the cow pattern on it. Did make the mistake of buying stark white fleece instead of natural white so it kinda contrasts in a bad-ish way but, it is what it is

But, uh, yeah. I vaguely studied my Ikea Shark for a little bit and made up a pattern, which I then traced onto my fabrics and cut out.

Pinned the two cow print pieces together first and sewed them together on the top

Pinned the tummy piece on next and sewed that on, leaving a hole in the lower tummy so I could turn the thing inside out and stuff it through there

Now, I dunno if you're actually supposed to do this, but I was worried about the fabric bulking up on the inside and the seams not laying nicely, so I made small cuts in the fabric around the edges (mainly around curves and corners)

Now since this was my first plushie I just wanted to use what I had on hand, so I went through my button collection looking for large buttons I could use as eyes for the shark. I ended up using the two on the bottom right, since they're mismatched anyways and didn't have pairs (and they looked the same on the reverse side, which I ended up using). My only regred was waiting until this point to sew the buttons on, it ended up being a lot more difficult than I had expected and, naturally, the eyes turned out wonky (and I didn't even notice until it was too late lmao)

For stuffing I figured I could use my jar of yarn scraps, as well as shredded fabric scraps (I had gone through my fabric stash a little while ago to get rid of awkward fabric pieces/trim ones into a more usable state, and I had shredded the scraps in anticipaton for this). I did end up having to go through some of my ancient practice granny squares that I ripped apart to also use as stuffing, just so I'd have enough, but honestly that was fine with me (wasn't gonna do anything with those anyways)

Now I do regret leaving the opening right there. My logic was that if I sewed it shut a little wonky it'd be a less noticable spot, and I wasn't wrong about that, but sewing that flipper did end up being quite tricky and frustrating. And it did turn out really wonky

But, with that, my first plushie project was completed.

Behold, a cowprint shark

It's wonky, it's wrinkly, the tail ended up smaller than I expect and the eyes aren't symmetrical at all. But considdering I think I last made a plushie in elementary school, and I bullshitted this thing together from scratch, it turned out decent enough for me. Also the fabric and yarn scraps made it really heavy but in a good way, I love the heft of this thing, it's so comfy

But, I still had more of the cowprint fabric

So I made more

(Sidenote I adjusted the pattern a bit, the tummy piece wasn't symmetrical so I redid that and I adjusted the tailfin to make it bigger)

Three big cowprint sharks, three mini sharks from scrap pieces, and this cat head thing from even smaller scrap pieces. Was gonna try making even more of the cat heads, but honestly sewing that fucking thing togetehr sucked ass and I don't want to, even if I have a few more scrap pieces left. I'm done, I'm tired, no more please

(I did buy actual plushie stuffing for these though because yeah, I went through all my yarn scraps and wasn't gonna have ANYTHING to stuff these with otherwise)

(For the record, no, I have no use for a Cow Print Shark Army (a Sharmy), I did make the rest of these with the intent of selling them at my next convention. They're all still wonky as hell so if I can get like 10-15 bucks for the big ones I'll be more than happy, that'll cover the cost of the stuffing and the fleece. I get to have a wonky cow shark for myself and all it cost me was time and patience making it)

Oh I also made this fucking thing from the leftover fleece

It turned out like shit lmao

(I just wanted a cute ghostie pillow/plushie, how the fuck did it turn out so wonky) (How the fuck were the fucking sharks easier to put together than this overglorified rectangle) (What the fuck)