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Consider this: A courtroom scene where John Doe I is sentenced to life imprisonment and John Doe II is sentenced to death by lethal injection…..
The constitution provides for the right to appeal.
Now consider this: An Appellate Court….
Prosecutors: John Doe I and John Doe II (no pun intended, they are the same John Does mentioned above)
Defendant: Society (hey, that’s you and me)
Prosecutors: “The Prosecution hereby requests that the esteemed jury consider the fact that the defendant - Society - is wholly responsible for the crimes committed.”
Presiding Judge: (baffled) “Court adjourned.”
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Interesting scenario isn’t it???
Society comes down heavily on criminals, and criminals are immediately shunned and rejected by society. Nevertheless, has anybody bothered to wonder what makes criminals? Does a judge ever try to find out what made a criminal a criminal?
Society plays a very important role in shaping everybody’s life. If society is responsible for creating respectable citizens, then society is also responsible for shaping criminals. Criminals are not born as cruel and heartless human beings; they too were once cute, toothless babies. Therefore, if after twenty years these cute, toothless babies become notorious criminals, has not something gone terribly wrong?
Indeed the vices in society create criminals. Found below is a mini-treatise on the vices of society.
Society ostracizes some people on a conveniently arbitrary basis. People in society are classified as good or bad depending on their facial features, hairstyles, etc. An unpleasant face in school is shunned by other ‘pleasant-faced’ children, and hence from a young age ‘unpleasant-faced’ children nurture a grudge against society. They are insulted by other children and teachers and termed as ‘good for nothing’ by society. In addition, isn’t every human being expected to live up to his/her reputation? So, who is to blame if this child with the unpleasant face lives up to his/her reputation of being ‘good for nothing’??? Every child, so treated, becomes a potential criminal (P.C. ha!) and it is wrong to place the blame on an individual when the whole of society is to be blamed. It is not necessary that the child of a criminal has to become a criminal. Society ought not to treat children of different social levels differently. The child of the multi-millionaire and the child of a public-bus driver must be treated equally. The child of a criminal must be treated with equal affection and care as the child of a priest, or else society is going to churn out another criminal.
Increasing police patrols will not produce ‘crime-reduction’; instead it will produce dead police officers and more notorious criminals. Equal affection and care for every member of society will certainly do the trick. So, next time do not believe the ‘wanna-be’ mayor when he/she promises nil crime rates during election campaigns…. the mayor can’t do anything, YOU CAN!!!!!
Now let us find out what happened in the courtroom.
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Bailiff: All rise.
Judge enters.
Judge: How does the defendant - Society - plead?
Defendant (Society): Guilty, your honour.
Judge: “The court hereby sentences you to find a solution to solve the problem of ‘crime’ that you created.”
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