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Are we brave....??
By Azka123
04 February 2008
A question to the secret life of prisoners.....

Are we brave enough to face even the most dangerous culprit and ask him about the life he is living? Should we ask what he needed by heart? Do we think that if he wasn't in the state as he is, would be the most important person or any super star?
What make him culprit or any offender?
The answer to these is obviously what we do not consider or think about. Some of whom believe that he is brave enough; he should try to face one of the lawbreakers and ask them about their living and the state they are in. By getting their answers we will know that it is not what they wanted to be but it is the democracy that makes them deprived in this condition.
Due to the lack of education, they turned in these positions. If all of them would get education they would become the important members of the country or any well-known person in the history. Then, they would be respected in the society. And live the comfortable life rather than being the criminal. In this condition all of the younger generation should get education as compulsion so that they could became the good citizens and instead of becoming lawbreakers they can get any respective occupation.
The second is that expensive livings in the country makes even the most poor person thief and in this condition they do not get any choice but to go in the wrong path to fulfill their desires and needs. To end this problem democracy should lower the expenses so that even the poor or the needy could fulfill the needs to be lived.
The third point that they are in these state, is because of the weak laws in the country. They do not become themselves but this is the law. When they see the weakness of laws they get the opportunity to break them freely and ignore the punishment after crime. In this condition there should be strict laws like Saudi Arabia where, even at the most common theft, the thief gets the punishment by cutting their hands or other results of breaking laws. So, by the strict laws people have no worries that the burglar could reach their house or any other criminals. Even the maids alone in the home do not even steal things when the chief of the house is not present.
These are the answers what make these offenders, culprits and thieves etc., in the hour of difficulty when they get no choice to fulfill their desires or comfortable living.

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Written by Phil (6713 comments posted) 4th February 2008
Azka, while your English is far from perfect, I admire you for trying.  
 
I can't say I admire your attitude to crime and punishment though. Frankly, naive and vicious. You really believe there's no crime in Saudi because they cut the hands off thieves? There must be, or they wouldn't cut the hands off thieves. I didn't follow your arguments about democracy - whether you were for or against - I suspect against. Perhaps democracy allows more crime to be committed by the individual - dictatorship, monarchy, whatever - allows crimes to be committed and go unpunished by the state. 
 
Take your pick. 
 
Phil.

Written by Phil (6713 comments posted) 4th February 2008
Azka - just reread my comments - and they do seem a little strongly worded. My apologies. 
 
Phil

Written by Fledermaus (3281 comments posted) 4th February 2008
I was wondering where you are now. Your profile says Saudi Arabia, but the piece suggests otherwise. It's an interesting issue you raise and it does address an old problem. How harsh should punishments be and should the good of the many go before the rights of the individual? 
I don't think chopping off limbs is helpful for any country (for how will people work without hands?), but I did hear that crime rates in most Middle and Far Eastern countries are indeed a lot lower than those in Europe... 
 
Yet I do think (and hope) that has more to do with traditional values than with cruel punishments. It's therefore important that you mentioned education as the first thing. People should do what is right because it is right and not because they fear punishment... 
 

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