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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Until now, shootings in school were only things that happen in America; but the recent incident of two 14-year olds shooting their classmate in cold blood in Gurgaon has made us all think again. That the murder was premeditated has shocked us all the more. That the two teens belong to well-to-do & respected families and are old enough to know what is right and what is wrong only makes their crime all the more heinous. That the boys did not lack for anything in their life - love, care, affection, money, education - makes us wonder what was the motive behind the whole crime. The motive was that the victim had been bullying them for the past few months.
I wonder - how bad was the bullying that made the boys take such a drastic step. Was it that extreme or was it that the two killers couldn't stand up and fight? Didn't the school take note of the bullying and take any action? We also had bullying in various other forms, but w stood up against it and emerged as stronger n smarter people. We may have had the occasional 'War of words' as it happens among girls while I'm sure all guys have had the occasional fistfight. But a step as drastic as killing a person goes against the very moral and social fibre of society. Is this what our new India is going to be - people who fight at th drop of a hat, bloodshed being a common thing. Those of us in Delhi have heard of enough incidents of road rage where an unnatural display of aggression have led to untold tales of horror. I would be scared to send my children to school now if the kids were brandishing guns and pistols. I am in any case wary of sending my kids to a school where most of the children have been taught an ostentatious show of the newly acquired wealth and power of their family and abandonment of all morals and values in the name of conservatism. When there were so many witnesses, why did Jessica Lall and Madhumita's families have to wait for so long for justice. It was an open and shut case. But the witnesses were scared to speak up against the wealth and power of the killers - they feared for the safety of their families and their own. If the British took over India today, we would not fight them with the weapon of non-violence, but with loads of violence, I am sure.
I confess there have been times when I have actually wanted to kill someone - could be a teacher or a professor or examiner or that bitch eyeing my man or just that asshole who is very happily walking the road like its his own personal garden or just simply anyone who comes inf front of me when I'm in a temper. I really wonder had my father also left a loaded gun lying around carelessly at home, if I would have also just picked it up and killed someone.
All said and done, I do feel a little sorry for that poor child waiting for his parents in the juvenile home. They have for all purposes, as of now, disowned and abandoned their wayward killer son who has ruined their family name. I wonder what will be the outcome of his entire sordid tale - but one thing is for sure, that the two teenagers have definitely made a mess of this now. The arguement that they did it to protect themselves and take revenge against the bully does not deter from from the fact that they have killed a human being. They are now old enough to know that what they did goes against the very morals of society.
I wonder - how bad was the bullying that made the boys take such a drastic step. Was it that extreme or was it that the two killers couldn't stand up and fight? Didn't the school take note of the bullying and take any action? We also had bullying in various other forms, but w stood up against it and emerged as stronger n smarter people. We may have had the occasional 'War of words' as it happens among girls while I'm sure all guys have had the occasional fistfight. But a step as drastic as killing a person goes against the very moral and social fibre of society. Is this what our new India is going to be - people who fight at th drop of a hat, bloodshed being a common thing. Those of us in Delhi have heard of enough incidents of road rage where an unnatural display of aggression have led to untold tales of horror. I would be scared to send my children to school now if the kids were brandishing guns and pistols. I am in any case wary of sending my kids to a school where most of the children have been taught an ostentatious show of the newly acquired wealth and power of their family and abandonment of all morals and values in the name of conservatism. When there were so many witnesses, why did Jessica Lall and Madhumita's families have to wait for so long for justice. It was an open and shut case. But the witnesses were scared to speak up against the wealth and power of the killers - they feared for the safety of their families and their own. If the British took over India today, we would not fight them with the weapon of non-violence, but with loads of violence, I am sure.
I confess there have been times when I have actually wanted to kill someone - could be a teacher or a professor or examiner or that bitch eyeing my man or just that asshole who is very happily walking the road like its his own personal garden or just simply anyone who comes inf front of me when I'm in a temper. I really wonder had my father also left a loaded gun lying around carelessly at home, if I would have also just picked it up and killed someone.
All said and done, I do feel a little sorry for that poor child waiting for his parents in the juvenile home. They have for all purposes, as of now, disowned and abandoned their wayward killer son who has ruined their family name. I wonder what will be the outcome of his entire sordid tale - but one thing is for sure, that the two teenagers have definitely made a mess of this now. The arguement that they did it to protect themselves and take revenge against the bully does not deter from from the fact that they have killed a human being. They are now old enough to know that what they did goes against the very morals of society.
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