A woman gets stabbed to death right behind my bestie's house.People stood and watched her die.Husband ran away with the child without even bothering to make an attempt at saving her from the sneering knife of the angry,drunk man.Nobody did anything,nobody.
People say she deserves to die because she has committed adultery.Did anyone consider the fact that she died because she tried to stop the affair? Yes,it was the man with whom the woman was having an affair that had killed her.So she gets killed for finally realizing her mistake and trying to redeem herself? She gets killed for having a conscience? How is that fair?
People say that it served her right.Why? Because she's a contemptible adulteress.What about the man who killed her,a notorious womanizer AND a murderer.Doesn't he deserve to die too then?But he will walk.He will plead "diminished capacity" to understand one's own actions under the intoxicating effects of alcohol and he will walk.What is the justice there then?Why does she alone deserve to die?Are we human or slowly transforming in to a Taliban state?
What about the husband who ran away instead of staying there protecting his lawfully wedded wife that he vowed to protect and cherish for the rest of his life? Perhaps his vows didn't include protecting her from drunk men with sharp objects chasing after his wife when all she wanted to do was to remain faithful to her her husband.Didn't he promise forgiveness and compassion when he took her? Didn't he promise to provide her shelter,love and care for her as long as they breathed?Maybe death didn't quite make it to the list of objects to shelter and protect her from.Maybe according to his vows,it was ok to run away and save his own precious life while his wife is hacked to death by an angry drunkard.Who knows....
Did anyone consider the fact that she might not have been getting the amount of love,affection and understanding that she deserved from her husband? Did it occur to anyone at all that she might have offered sex to get the kind of love and care that every woman craves for? I have heard many a times that men give love to get sex and women give sex to get love.Why is it that women are meant to suffer in silence under the confines of wedlock even when she is grossly disappointed?And then,how does it become justifiable that the husband who was supposed to offer her the love and protection that she needs,runs away,leaving her alone in mercy of a frenzied drunkard with a knife? As long as we are talking about "deserving to die",doesn't the husband deserve to die to for abandoning his wife in her hour of need?Or is it only the women who deserve to die?
And what becomes of the child? A girl child at that with a hole in her heart.The very people who say that her mother deserved to die,the very people who whispered that she should have at least thought of the child,will one day turn around and say that the daughter will turn out exactly like the mother and will sleep around and sully what is left of her reputation.What about this poor motherless child's future where her own mother shall be stripped naked,raped and stabbed to death over and over again for the rest of her life? What about the child who shall be mentally abused for the rest of her life and maybe perhaps turn out bad anyway since she is anyway accused of the worst? What about her,the hapless child who happily sucks away at her thumb because there is no one to stop her from doing that now,knowing nothing,understanding nothing? What about her?
Does anyone DESERVE to die? Do the people who think that somebody DESERVES to die "deserve" to live for that matter? I shall never get these questions answered.I shall never get used to life.............
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