By now the brutal rape and murder of a 23 year old medical student in India is international news. It's an incident that is so unnecessary. I'm sure everyone is asking how did this happen, why did this happen. I understand that the accused were not on any drugs, they only consumed alcohol. So what could make someone commit such a heinous act like that?
I've asked myself this question before; do I have it in me to kill another human being? The answer is startlingly yes. I think all of us are capable of murder in the "right" context or situation. But the majority of us (and I'm talking about normal people and not people with mental health issues) have the ability to control our (psychotic) murderous tendencies either by upbringing, or social values, or religion, or moral values, or some other form of restraint.
So do these accused have none of the controlling factors in place? But I reckon many people with similar backgrounds as the accused do exist in the world and I don't think all of them commit heinous crimes like this.
So what is it that made them do what they did? In order to subject any living thing to such cruelty, more so a human being, surely one must truly have such hatred, or perhaps evil, in their very souls. I can't imagine hating anyone that much to inflict that amount of pain and torture on another living being. Because if I were to do that, what does that say of me as a human being?
Of course, I think the accused deserve to be tortured and executed. If someone did that to a person I love, I have no qualms about seeking them out to the ends of the earth and executing them myself. Some may call it vengeance, I call it justice. But! I will stop short at torturing them. I don't think I have it in me. Or do I? Do we all have it in us if we are pushed to a corner?
If you believe that all babies were born good, how did the accused end up being evil?
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