A viral incident in india tells you everything wrong with our social order: a delivery boy, a security guard, and a privileged couple who think Netflix plots are real life. Here’s why this isn’t about negligence—but about entitlement and hypocrisy.
1. The ₹8000 Salary vs. Your Terrorist Fantasies
The security guard earns ₹8000 a month—barely enough to feed his family. Yet, the couple expected him to stop terrorists with a bamboo stick, like some desi james Bond. For that salary, society doesn’t deserve “protection,” it deserves reality checks.
2. Delivery Boys Aren’t Bin laden in Disguise
The guard let the delivery boy in because he knew one thing the couple didn’t: late deliveries mean fines and pay cuts. But of course, the privileged imagination sees pizza boxes as bombs. Maybe next time, they’ll demand CRPF commandos at the gate for a zomato order.
3. Privilege Screams, Empathy Whispers
The couple had time to question a guard doing his job with empathy. But where’s their outrage for the system that keeps delivery workers like machines and pays guards like beggars? Easy target: the poor man with the stick.
4. Safety Theatre vs. Real Safety
The couple wants the illusion of safety: frisk the delivery boy, stop the auto driver, glare at the maid. Real safety—CCTV maintenance, police accountability, better training—costs money. So, society picks the cheapest option: outsource paranoia to the poor.
5. The Guard Chose Humanity, They Chose Drama
The guard saw a delivery boy, a worker hustling to survive. The couple saw a terrorist, because privilege always assumes the worst about the powerless. One chose humanity, the other chose melodrama.
6. Unrealistic Expectations = Convenient Hypocrisy
Pay him peanuts, give him a stick, deny him respect—then expect him to be Rambo. That’s the middle-class moral code: demand sacrifice from others, while sipping your latte behind gated security.
👉 Bottom Line:
This story isn’t about a guard who “failed.” It’s about a society where privilege shouts about terrorists, while the underpaid and overworked quietly hold the system together. The guard doesn’t need to apologize. The couple does.
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