I strongly believe that NOBODY has got the moral right to take human lives-a life which has been given to Live and flourish.It is against the 'Nature's Law'.
Kasab IS a victim of circumstances.He was not born a monster.In fact no body is.(It's a different issue that degrees of inherent violent instinct varies from man to man).Kasab has been thoroughly brainwashed by a fanatic ideology which thrives on violence,on the pervert faith that man can be killed for a cause.If I try to picturise Kasab as a child growing up with his family in the rough terrains of west Pakistan 20 years back,I find it impossible to find any interplay of sordid games of ruthlessness inside the innocent consciousness of a child who would one day grow up to kill 40 people WITHOUT any remorse.
What made that innocent child into the mass murderer he grew up to be? A consciousness which tended to co-exist,to lead a normal life of love and harmony was so deeply affected by a strong idealogue that the very roots of the consciousness changed radically.Kasab didnt take a human life at the spur of the moment,driven by a moment of distorted frenzy.For 3 long months if not more, he knew that he would kill a fellow human being,his conscience was prepared for it and throughout this period not for once did Kasab's original consciousness return to ask him questions.
We have to take that fanatic ideology on face.Why has this ideology grown?Why people of character,intelligence and leadership believe in and preach this ideology?These people do not have any guilt.They do not think that their ideologies end up provoking acts of crime. They believe in it,and seek solace from its distorted principles in times of crisis.This is what is frightening.A whole generation (or generations) exists in today's society with a set of moralities and ideals which are drastically different from ours,in the rest of the world. It's members are not criminals. They do not consciously cause thefts,robberies,murders and rapes of passion driven by an antisocial instinct. The militant revolutionaries of pre-independant India were not habitual bandits or killers.They too believe in a cause.India also believed in that cause in its days of pre-independence extremist movements. And we still do believe that they(they killed innocent British
women and children too) were heroes and patriots who sacrificed their lives for a cause.
The first batch of men in whom the seeds of this ideology were planted, were looked upon in the same way by their own lot.That is why the ideology could thrive. The common man believed it to be morally correct and just. The ideology took its nourishment from the beliefs of the common man in it.
It's the ultimate failure of modern humanism (specially over the last 2 centuries) to create a world of Peace and Equality which pushed a segment of the normal population out of its umbrella and forced them to find a meaning in Life through a radically opposite set of moral values.If I deny this, I would be guilty of telling the greatest Lie in the history of man. Man could have given a different format to society over his existence over the last 2 centuries. Man chose inequality and marginalisation.Certain communities went on to thrive as 'developed' which sadly was synonymous with power and affluence. And THIS segment decided that it shall decide the fate of humanity-This is the most criminal blunder modern man has ever committed.Man had a chance.Because it had human history to ponder over.In history over the last 7 thousand years,we see the frailties and brittleness of community systems when man wanted to dominate man,to exist and evolve
socially,formalising social doctrines to serve as tools to create and maintain inequality.They all failed,some after decades and some after centuries. In history's pages,one can see the evolution of humankind with a corresponding tilt of social philosophy towards Equality and Democracy.And man has reached the present day where countries,societies and communities are not Ruled but Governed.The common man does not think Ruling is morally correct.
At this stage of social evolution,man made The Mistake(most probably unintentionally).It distributed ethnic pockets into a new social pattern which accommodated polarisation of power and discrimination of rights,the pattern being theorised by laws which seemingly originated from a philosophy oriented towards democracy. But it resulted in Marginalisation.
We cannot say that we did not foresee the result.The two World Wars within a single century grossly point out the fallibility of the social order humankind has adopted to proceed. Nothing changed. Man vainly wanted to hold on to same principle and the result was more warnings-the Korean War,the Cold War,the Vietnam War,the wars in Argentina,Bolivia,Nicaragua,the Seven Year War and its offshoots in the entire Middle East,the bloody strides in Cambodia,Zambia, Congo ,Somalia and the more recent Afghan and Sri Lankan wars have happened within the last 59 years,and newer and newer ones are being born,not to mention the Gulf War and the Iraq war.
The astonishing fact that 34 or more major wars have errupted all over the world in that phase of human history which symbolises the zenith of its development and advancement, reeks of an obnoxious truth we are still trying cover up in the name of 'modernization' and 'civilisation'.
Human consciousness has to change.From the basics.To start with,we must accept and apologise.Diplomatic and foreign policies have to re-written entirely.National constitutions have to be re-shaped.I think the entire concept of Sociology has to be re-defined.
It is a long and tedious job requiring Patience, Tolerance, and Sacrifice. Are we willing to do it?
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