When a family relies on a person for survival, and the means of that survival is through one particularly narrow and limited way of work, how can he or she drop everything and embark on a moralistic crusade to assuage their conscience? Yeah, in the eyes of God that person might be unburdening their dhokra of sin, but that isn't much consolation when the dependents of that person are going hungry or are in danger of being made homeless or - in terms of Punjabi culture - become the victims of gossip and slander (which for some is much worse than death, lol). If that isn't being "trapped" then what is? Life isn't some feel-good film, where people can drop everything and everyone and focus on the self. Teens and single folk can, but people with families cannot do that. Our gianis, parcharaks, etc., have their responsibilities and material desires beyond what they preach on stage. They're human beings, believe it or not.
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