In an incident that happened not too long ago in America, this sicko entered a single mother's apartment, raped her violently a number of times through the night, cut her open while he was raping her because he liked it that way, killed her by dawn and left. The worst part was that her nearly 2-year-old baby was crying on the same bed the whole night. When police got to the scene two days later the baby had just died of hunger and crying.
This is not an isolated incident. Just read the crime section in a daily and you’ll find that it happens all the time in civilized societies. Of course, in our darkest times, we all think of dominating others and subduing them to our will, and a ‘sadistic streak’, though latent, is there within all of us. We normally think like this against those who step on our tails. But at what point does a normal human being cross the threshold that separates the healthy emotion of revenge (revenge as in justice) from psychopathic behavior? The fact is normal people don’t cross the line. They only behave bad reactively; to defend or to avenge.
But there are psychopathic people amidst us who, in pursuit of pleasure or power, will stop at nothing. Their conscience is dead and inner voice non-existent. People raping toddlers, psychos killing just for the fun of it, politicians sacrificing thousands of lives to gain power reek of evil within some humans.
I’m scribbling these profound statements because a recent news story on bullies they carried a few weeks ago in themedguru.com, a 'Health and Medical' portal, has moved me considerably. It has got me thinking on punishment, crime & justice and capital punishment. Kindly read through this news story before you go any further reading my scribblings.
http://www.themedguru.com/articles/study_shows_bullies_enjoy_inflicting_pain-86116542.html
I am a big fan of punishment. I like to sadistically maim and punish evil people. Since they’ll put me in jail for that I stop short of doing it. Child bullies are perfect candidates for punishment. If not treated sternly in childhood, they are sure to develop psychopathic tendencies later on in adulthood.
Now, coming back to that rape, whose suffering was the worst, baby's or the mother's? What should be done to the perpetrator do you think? If you don’t endorse capital punishment, when will you endorse it? When your own daughter or sister becomes the victim?
Someone who doesn’t understand that forgiveness should never be unconditional is an idiot. Some crimes are unforgivable and forgiving the unforgivable is beyond the pale. To a logical and intelligent person, not punishing sadists like that rapist doesn’t make any sense. Where’s the sense in an innocent young mother getting cut open like this, baby dying crying by her dead mother’s side and the evil perpetrator evading punishment, only to do it again to some other young mother and a baby and KEEP doing it till he dies of natural causes?
I’d go a step further and say that capital punishment is a relief in cases like these rather than punishment. Death is an easy option. Personally, I'll torture him to my heart's content and look for ways to keep him alive. The objective is to make him suffer for as long as possible. Then throw his live remains in the garbage bin to rot. But like I said before, fear of incarceration prevents me from acting out my fantasies.
This is also maiming, you might retort, and ask me since when maiming someone sadistically a good thing? Maiming and torturing someone to derive pleasure is bad, nay, sick. Just as sick as what the rapist did.
But it’s not. Don’t just see torture. Also see where it is coming from. It all boils down to bad and good. Crime and justice.
Appearance is deceptive. Not all bad that looks bad, on the face of it, is actually bad. Maiming somebody sadistically is an obvious crime and should attract punishment of the highest order. I don’t condone it. But when you maim bad people, it is NOT a crime. It is justice.
In simple terms, being bad is crime, being bad back is justice. And justice has to fit the crime. The bigger the crime, bigger the punishment. Muslim countries understand this better than western, developed nations. Looked at this way, Muslims are much wiser than the rest of the humanity.
I suggest there should be double standards when it comes to inherently evil people. Bad elements in society should be identified early on in childhood and dealt with with separate set of rules. It’s like they are the wild animals; you don’t reason with wild animals. You beat the evil out of them and keep them scared of the cane, as only the cane stops them. And if cane cannot tame them, it’s better to put them out, like rabid dogs. There should be an appropriate law regarding this.
It will be stupid to treat bullies as part of the normal society. You can’t reason with them like you can with sensible people; they are past reasoning with. Plus, forgiving establishes a very bad example for them. Personally, I will not look askance at a teacher beating a child bully senseless, and will turn a blind eye towards a cop belting the evil out of a ruthless criminal.
By Harpreet Bhagrath
The writer is the Chief Editor at themoneytimes.com and can be contacted at editor@trustsquare.net Or harpreet10jan@hotmail.com
the evil within some of us
Boy that was good. You took every single word right out of my mouth.
Reply to Anonymous
Thanks for reading through the whole blog. Cheers.
No a good idea
It's called "an eye for an eye". The punishment should fit the crime but when you star talking about torture, you are turning justice into evil. And who is supposed to carry out these so-called punishments? And how does this person/group get trained?
What your talking about is insane. Especially when your referring to children(bullies). The whole bully issue is vital but you have to remember that bad parents are the cause of this effect. You can't just go thrashing kids for their behavior. You have do diagnose the problem which is 99% from home.
That whole Muslim comment you made clearly demonstrates your ignorance. Iran considers females as adults at the age of 12 and their government gives out capital punishment like we do speeding tickets. And they won't murder virgins so the government demands they be raped before execution.
Be careful what you wish for.
And stop spreading your ignorance. It's contagious.
Reply to Only normal person
I DID NOT say that Muslim nations do everything right. But insofar as punishing the guilty is concerned, they don’t show any WEAKNESS that western nations do. That’s why I wrote: “Looked at this way, Muslims are much wiser than the rest of the humanity.” “Looked at this way” is the key phrase here.
You wrote: And who is supposed to carry out these so-called punishments? And how does this person/group get trained?
My reply: If you scroll down the replies you will read what I have to say on this.
You wrote: “The whole bully issue is vital but you have to remember that bad parents are the cause of this effect. You can't just go thrashing kids for their behavior. You have do diagnose the problem which is 99% from home.”
My reply: You mean to say 99 percent of the child bullies are not really to be blamed? I think your figures are clearly inflated. I put the number somewhere around 40 percent (don’t quote me on this percentage though, it’s just a vague figure, which I think is closer to the real picture than your 99 percent). Rest of them, I reckon, DO need the cane. It’s just a matter of finding the 60 percent. And with a keen eye on detail, you CAN discern sheer evil in some of the bully kids. Society needs to stop these sick bullies before they grow up to be psychopaths.
If you are one of those employees with a particularly dominant and obnoxious boss, chances are that the boss has had a history of bullying. Trust me, it’s better to go back in time and ‘take care’ of these bosses in their childhood rather than let them run rampant in our society. Psychopaths are about power. And they DO get the power due to the weakness in societies to deal with them appropriately. You don’t go weak on bullies. You hit them and you hit them hard. Period.
The Evil is in All of Us?
Why do "back stabbers" rise to the top? Why do we love gossip? Build it up, to bring it down? Where is the thinking line between justice and evil? Can we ever know the truth? Could it be that evil is inherent in the system and that in good times it is less noticeable? Instead of thinking that people are inherently good, why not recognize that it is not so simple? Then we wouldn't blindly trust authority in all its forms, including financial. Then we might not be in the serious pickle we are today.
I agree with your sense of
I agree with your sense of justice - now who shall decide when to apply the cane? and for what offense?
Now, what happens if the cop you turned a blind eye to is the sadistic bully? or the DA? or the judge?
withholding the cane to the bully is not the problem - no one is advocating withholding punishment to the guilty. The problem is we need to trust our legal system to correctly determine who is innocent, a task they have have failed at far to often. After much trail and far to many errors, wise people have determined if is better to withhold the cane lest we accidentally beat one innocent man - not because the truly guilty should not be punished. i am comfortable with that, and you should be too if you have ever been falsely arrested, and am glad it separates our society from those of the middle ages or current day middle east.
if i see someone do that to my sister - oh, yeah he better hope the cops get to him first - having said that, what would it make me if I cut the gonads off the wrong guy?
Reply to 'Anonymous'
You are right in saying that it’s much worse to punish the innocent than let the guilty walk away. There’s nothing worse than the cutting “the gonads off the wrong guy”. My issue is with the justice department that lets the guilty off with impunity just for lack of concrete evidence. There’s no video camera hovering over the crime scenes, so the irrefutable evidence is hardly ever possible to furnish.
From the crime scene till the verdict, it’s a long process and the justice gets lost in it all. Judges sitting so far away, in time and space, in their high-mounted seats are not in a fit place to deliver justice. It follows that justice should be in the hands of hands-on police officers who are good, strong and intelligent men (It was this ‘good, strong and intelligent copper’ I was talking about, by the way, when I wrote, “…will turn a blind eye towards a cop belting the evil out of a ruthless criminal”). Only such a super taskforce empowered appropriately (or the victims or their relatives themselves) is in a position to deliver justice. But finding such super men, even if such a system is put in place, is the problem part. Wishful thinking, I must add.
I’m pretty sure many a good cop has felt like taking law in his own hands and do this ‘hands-on’ justice I’m talking about. The solution is in letting them take law in their own hands. I wrote something similar near the end when I concluded my blog, “…will turn a blind eye towards a cop belting the evil out of a ruthless criminal.” Legal department should turn a blind eye to the real justice taking place. It’s between that copper and the criminal now.
Alternatively, the justice can be left to the victim’s relatives - 'Go find your man and do justice yourself. The law will not stop you.'
Between the perpetrator, the victim, the copper and the relative, isn’t justice department a superfluity best done away with? It only comes in the way of justice anyway.
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