Everybody in the world, especially those in India seems to be talking about the rape of 23
year-old woman in the bus in New Delhi, India. I noticed this news several days
ago. The first time I knew it, I wasn’t really interested since there are many more
news about rapes already in the world. I just skipped and moved on to another
more interesting news for me. But since yesterday, my focus was really on this
news. Someone shared a link on Facebook and wrote a note in it about such rape.
I read carefully till I got the complete story and felt very surprised.
I couldn’t even describe how my feeling was
like when reading that note. My words were only ‘oouuch..’, ‘iiihhh..’ and
‘shit!’. I couldn’t imagine how she felt and I didn’t even want to imagine if I
am in her position. Too pathetic and scary.I know her feeling even before I
imagine being in her position, and I think so do all women in the world. When I
saw her picture, I was like pathetically cursing the six suspects who did it. I
would say she is gorgeous. She is pretty, has a beautiful skin, and moreover
she is a medical student in one of the universities in Delhi. Can you imagine
how that blessed woman end up her life by being raped and murdered by those
irresponsible cheesy guys? Shit!! I wonder which part of universe they are
from. Hell couldn’t even accommodate those cruel creatures!They are even worse
than just bastards!
I was questioning all the time what’s
actually wrong with this. How could they be that brutal? The first reasonable thought
came to my mind was because in India like in Indonesia, people don’t have
sexual freedom. So psychologically says, people who repress their sexual desire
will then come up with the actions which are even much more brutal and
uncontrolled than they could be if their sexual desire has been satisfied
beforehand. These brutal and uncontrolled actions were reflected by raping.
When I discussed about this with my mom, she contended that it’s not merely a
raping that be case, but also the matter of moral and ethical values the
suspects have. If you follow up the news, after they raped the woman, they then
tortured her until she was dying. They apparently have low moral and ethical
values so when they got into the situation where there was an attractive woman
in the bus, they couldn’t control their desire. They wouldn’t do it unless they
have high moral and ethical standards which brought them into a rational
decision, which is ‘not to rape and torture people’.
I seem to agree with such thought. But then
my question is ‘How can we increase the moral and ethical standards of those
people?’ I realize that not only in India moral and ethical values matter, but
also in Indonesia and many other countries in the world. Indonesia Government
has tried to include this aspect into curriculum by making it as a compulsory
subject at school. But what then? Nothing changed. My mom and I agree that this
is about the quality of the people. How school is able to educate their
students in order to increase the quality of the people is the most important.
I think the subject about moral and ethical values are just in vain if the
teachers aren’t able to promote those values and make them internalized by the
students. The quality of the country is seen from the quality of the people
inside. Indonesia seems to have low quality I think. So it’s no wonder there
are many advanced and smart people decided to stay abroad instead of in their
very own homeland. Last but not least, I hope there will be no more brutality
as mentioned above and life goes around the peace. ^__^
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