Atrocity
Before pouring my heart out here, first I would confess my guilt. I know all I would do here is to type on the computer sitting in the comfort of my home and do nothing solid to help eradicate these evils from the world... or from the city to be precise. Whenever I get to know of such happenings, my blood boils and I am filled with lots of thoughts, but I know its all of no use. I don’t want to give any excuses for me not going out and doing something. Its plain and simple - I just don’t get my butt out there to do something.Ok let me come back to what exactly I am talking about. Its about the news that I read today which put me once again in the spin of mixed emotions - anger, sympathy, frustration and everything. The headline of TOI today is "Murder Shocks BPO City". While I was reading on, I couldn’t stop imagine the condition of the poor girl while she was going through the monstrous behavior of the cab driver and finally ended up in death a ditch. Aaarrggghhh I just wished that I was just dreaming and that this wasn’t real.
What an irony. Just today morning I was reading some articles in Femina where women said that Bangalore is a safe place compared to the other metros. And late in the afternoon I got to see the newspaper and the shocking news stared in my face. Why do these guys do it? I really cant understand why do people just go all the way to ruin the good things that happen in life. I do believe that the upspring of BPOs and call centers would have brought in jobs for a lot of people including these cab service providers and the drivers. Why cant they be happy with it? Why does someone have to do such a gory thing and spoil their life and other people's lives?
I really dont feel hanging a rapist to death is the ideal punishment. Death sentence does not justify the crime that the person committed by raping a girl. I strongly feel there should be a much cruel punishment for such people. Right now my mind is screaming that the person should be tortured in all possible ways till he dies naturally. Something like burning parts of his skin everyday with red hot iron bars. Then let the wounds not heal by pricking them with needles every one hour. People can suggest more on this kind of sadistic punishments. My husband says the rapist's thing should be cut off without even anesthesia and let him out in the world - Cut off the source of the crime. And I kinda agree with him. The criminal should suffer each and every minute of the rest of his life for committing such a sin. I really hope the Govt. passes such a law. Not only does it let the criminal suffer for what he did, but it also would bring jitters to the future rapists in the making. Every guy should get scared to death before even he could think of raping a girl. I think this is the only solution to prevent further rapes in the world.
Nothing can replace the pain the girl would have gone through while taking her last breath. Nothing can replace the husband's and the parents' grief. All I can pray for is "may her soul rest in peace".
posted by Tweety @ 4:37 AM
10 Comments:
aha..another bangalorean.
I wonder what they're finally going to do to the rapist,thoughToday's paper had pictures of people protesting.
humm..lets see.Until then, curfews are being imposed...(grin).on a lot of girls i know.
>> "My husband says the rapist's thing should be cut off with ..."
Not sure if you know this or not, but in some Gulf countries, thats the official punishment for rapes!
Whoo.. somebody is boiling with anger. I can understand that.
In any case, punishments to the rapist might just eradicate the person but not the problem(which is larger and more dangerous than the person).
Having said that I'm not sure if we can eradicate the problem totally. We can just take measures to alleviate the likelihood of it happening. And I think the think tanks of banglore (police+Corporate security)are doing just that... Thinking about various measures(Checking for criminal records of cab drivers, ensuring that no woman is picked up first or dropped last, etc).
All these measures in no way guarantee that there will not be another rape (Though we all hope that there won't). It will definitely be less easier for the criminal and make him(or her) feel that it's not worth the effort. If that happens then we've won half the battle.
It's a battle that we're trying to fight for thousands of years and we will fight for another thousand years (I really hope it doesn't take that long).
The real permanent solution lies not in the battle but in the mind..As they say "It's all in the mind"
-A
Yep, I agree with Amith. But if I look at what Arul said, if Gulf can restrict these crimes to the minimal, may be we could adopt some of their processes and achieve the same here too.
For God's sake how can you compare our country with some dumb-witted Gulf country, leave alone adopting their policies.
In these very same countries you are punished for drying clothes in your balcony, for practising other religions, for holding a girls hand and many such "henious" crimes.
I said "some" of their policies.
"My husband says the rapist's thing should be cut off with ..."
I totally stand by this one.
Cut off, burnt... throw acid upon... etc...
By doing these things we basically are acting like the rapists. All these things are not humane.
The problem needs to be resolved from the larger angle.
The driver confessed that he killed her for sex. What does it tell you? :-<
To prevent such incidents in the future, the Government can attempt the following.
1. Legalize Prostitution
2. Legalize Abortion
Freakonomics? Vels .. fill me in
Ya. You can read about the Freakonomics article here: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittReply2004.pdf
It basically says that Crime has got reduced in US bcoz abortion was legalised.
-Vels
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