I guess "RAPE" has sort of become the talking point of this country, everybody is vouching for death penalty or chemical castration without even understanding the fact that, you can have the most heinous of punishments known to mankind printed on the rule book, but without a proper investigation or a legitimate prosecution process the guilty cannot be handed over the punishment, can they?
The problems with awarding a death penalty is that, it motivates the guilty to kill the victim, as it's the easiest way of disposing of the evidence, It's a probability. Chemical castration can be awarded for a person convicted on the second attempt, It's not that a wrong isn't a wrong when you do it the first time,it's just that the very purpose of "Law" is to reform a person, that's what a punishment is meant for,you cannot twist or turn the definition according to once need.
Number of rape cases in India has shot up, instead of blaming the entire male race in existence in India, what need's to be looked at is the cultural taboo on the word "SEX" that exists in a country like India, where uttering the very word is considered a sin, a boy and a girl cannot be just friends, there has to be more than something attached to the term, The first counter or an understanding an adolescent boy receives about his female counterpart is not through sex education but through his biology text books.
A nation where in 95% of its movies are about love, no wonder it has shot up the numbers in terms of population but what it also does is to increase the urge for it.. The society has to evolve,come out of the nutshell,develop an open mind,must accept that it's a human need and there is nothing wrong with doing it, this entire patriarchal mindset has to be knocked off and the people should be made aware of the fact that they are a generation of men raised by a women, so respect has to be vented out, that's the only way it can be curbed, I'm not defending what has happened or is happening but this is the ground reality, Sometimes truth is a bitter pill to swallow,isn't it?
Amen to that. And it's heartening to see that a lot of people, not just women, are waking up to the need for this change. :)
ReplyDeletewhat needs to be understood is the fact that instead of dishing out opinions through an angry mind, the ground reality of an issue needs be to understood,that's the only way a solution could be found,not by shouting slogans in the middle of the road...
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