{"id":152286,"date":"2025-09-29T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=152286"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:03:24","slug":"consequences-of-penal-code-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/29\/consequences-of-penal-code-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Penal Code Amendment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shenali Waduge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This Bill is not simply about banning corporal punishment \u2014 it is about&nbsp;<strong>social engineering<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By stripping away parental and teacher authority, it manufactures a generation of children who are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Narcissistic Youth<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conditioned to believe\u00a0<em>their feelings are supreme and unquestionable<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grow up entitled, arrogant, unable to take correction or responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unruly &amp; Undisciplined Citizens<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With no fear of consequence, youth will break rules at home, in school, and later in society.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Respect for elders, teachers, and traditions will collapse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manipulable Pawns<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When children reject authority at home and school, they become highly vulnerable to\u00a0<strong>outside authority<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 social media influencers, NGOs, extremist groups, foreign-funded campaigns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Youth without roots in discipline or culture are easily recruited for\u00a0<strong>external agendas<\/strong>: street protests, anti-state activism, culture wars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A Society Turned Upside Down<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Parents and teachers powerless.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children with unearned power, no duties, no responsibilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elders silenced, while youth are weaponized as tools for those who wish to destabilize nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Big Picture Warning:<\/strong><br>This Bill is&nbsp;<strong>not about child protection<\/strong>. It is about&nbsp;<strong>child exploitation<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 creating a narcissistic, unruly generation that can be turned against its own culture, parents, teachers, and country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE GOVT MUST IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW THIS BILL &#8211; RUINING THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE OF SRI LANKA IS MORE TREACHEROUS THAN ANY CRIME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenali Waduge This Bill is not simply about banning corporal punishment \u2014 it is about&nbsp;social engineering.&nbsp; By stripping away parental and teacher authority, it manufactures a generation of children who are: Big Picture Warning:This Bill is&nbsp;not about child protection. It is about&nbsp;child exploitation&nbsp;\u2014 creating a narcissistic, unruly generation that can be turned against its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152287,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152286\/revisions\/152287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}