My Dilemma... Resolved!!!

I’ve been watching these debates on the news channels about the opportune prospect the most heinous monster of the lot faces, of being released in some months after he turns a major. The hot discussions on his being wrongly considered a juvenile and being given an undue leeway.

I personally find these thought-provoking debates extremely mind boggling, bewildering, unsettling and disturbing because quite honestly, I seem to be sitting on the fence about the entire issue.

I am sure that no one in the country in unaware of the atrocities inflicted on the unlucky young woman on that fateful night. I need not revisit or make those reading this revisit the horror all over again. My heart bleeds nevertheless... along with the million others...

A lot is being said, criticized, disputed, suggested and recommended as regards our flawed laws dealing with serious crimes and criminals. The most flawed of them being the 'Juvenile Law' that declares any criminal under the age of 18 to be a ‘Juvenile Delinquent’ and thereby gives a protection/ shelter and a fair chance to such underage criminals to reform.

I, being a person who strongly believes in practising forgiveness and compassion, do view it as a fair law in favour of the society in general.  After all most of the crimes, especially by minors are committed because of a hell lot of psychological and social factors that actually prove themselves a victim of grave circumstances most of the times. So they should get a fair chance to improve themselves. And with the right kind and amount of counseling/ guidance, I do believe it is possible to bring about a positive change in them.

But to accept and impose this as an all-encompassing law for every crime by anyone under 18 is in my eyes, itself a grave crime.

The monster in the recent, the most heinous of the rape cases may have been medically proven to be under 18 years of age but to call and consider him a child or a juvenile is no less criminal on the part of the law. And especially when he’s just some months shorter than that age.

First of all, for the kind of brutality he committed, it is highly nonsensical and illogical to even think that he was psychologically or intellectually oblivious to what he was doing…. Or that he had a little understanding of the seriousness of the crime.

Give any ten year old an iron rod and ask him if he can assault someone with it, even he would turn around and call you insane in response, because even a small kid of that young age understands that doing something of this sort is morally very wrong and insane.

Secondly, the so called minor in question had the testosterone and sick lust of a fully matured, perverted man to rape her violently not once but twice before assaulting her fatally later on… Can something even remotely close to this be possibly done by a minor/child/juvenile (mentally and physically not medically)???

Different groups are so divided on this question. There are those who are against such illogical, shallow and hypocritical laws, criticizing them vehemently, then at the same time, there are also those social worker, peace loving types who strongly recommend that the “Beast” be given a chance to be reformed.

My dilemma here is that though I too believe in giving a criminal an opportunity to mend his ways before he turns into a hardened criminal (because no one’s born a criminal). I also feel and strongly so…. that a criminal of this ferocious/barbaric/fatal capability has no scope of turning hardened any further… he already is a ‘Hardened Criminal' a 'Ferocious Sexual Predator'… and honestly I do not see any possibility of him changing or reforming ever…

In fact, he will only go on to unleash graver and more fatal violence on the society if he’s allowed to walk away scot-free, because then the fact that he was acquitted for the most savage crime ever committed in the history of rape crimes, would only embolden his evil spirit further.

Optimism and idealism may sound or look like truly great attitudes in life. But at some point a realistic line has to be drawn. Hoping that a ferocious sexual predator like this 17 something can change his ways and be a good/responsible citizen in the future is plainly “Hoping against Hope.”

I think I have resolved my dilemma.

I suggest that the lawmakers, the courts and the justices consider this simple analogy before delivering a verdict for him… What do you do to a part of your body if/when it turns gangrenous???  Do you keep your hopes alive and keeping taking medicines/ treatment for it hoping that it would heal someday or do you cut if off your body so that it doesn’t spread to the rest good part of your body and thereby save your life???

A savage beast like him is very much like a gangrene in our society. And before he spreads the poison all around he should be severed from it. Eliminated permanently, so that the life of our society/citizens can be saved.

That’s what I see as a practical solution. A perfect justice to the young and innocent woman who was deflowered and murdered brutally and mercilessly.

"Death Penalty for the minor Monster along with the adult Monsters"

The "Problem" is the "Solution" !!!

At 4.00 in the morning….

A lot going on inside. There is…

“A silence so turbulent… A turbulence so silent….”

I feel, I sense and I discern that there is a certain amount of calm and peace that I have attained my life owing to all the highs and lows I have been through. I have risen through. A certain amount of ‘bliss’ that I experience quite often… during my days, my waking hours… when I’m at work or when I’m around my family, friends, colleagues, when I’m not talking but listening, when I’m just thinking silently, contemplating, reflecting and mostly when I’m in contact with my real self in the innermost part of my physical self… my soul… and my source…

But what happens when the night falls…?! When it’s dark outside and there’s pin drop silence everywhere… The only sound that falls on the ears is that of the clock ticking… ticking away seconds, minutes, hours… and thereby days, months and years…

The sense of calm that rests in my heart and soul throughout the days slowly turns into a quiet turmoil at nights.

What exactly is it…???

Is it my loneliness that grows grave and stifling in the dark hours of the night? Is it the sense of failure of not doing and giving enough that gives me those inexplicable pangs in the heart? Is it some sort of fear related to the future lurking in the depths of my mind? Or some hurt I suffered in the past and still carry inside…???

May be one of these things or a complex mixture of all.

In my heart of hearts I feel that I know the root cause but then comes the bigger question.  What’s the solution???

I remember having read somewhere that no problem comes without its solution. In other words, all problems come with their respective solutions, provided that we recognize them …

I, being a contemplative person by nature, started chewing on it… and then came to realize something that I later on put into a quote…

“All problems come with their solutions, the solutions however don’t always come to your liking”

Somewhere deep down I know the root cause of my problems, and the very recognition of the basic cause of all my problems gives me a clear understanding of their possible and most certain solutions.

Upon reflecting on it further, It dawned on me that what I lack is not the vision of the solutions but the “Will” to act on them.

As the age old saying goes… “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”

It’s not the ‘way’ that I can’t perceive, it is actually the ‘will’ I fail to summon within me, to adopt the solutions, to let go of all my inhibitions, illusions, delusions, false hopes and fears. The will to accept and to walk on the path showing up right before my eyes…

The very solution to one serious problem gets snowballed into a hundred other grave problems when not accepted and adopted in time.

So I realize….It is the “Will”

That is my problem. That is my solution.