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Subject: does it always take two ?

jeffwyer 20.06.13 - 05:39pm
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urvoice1 20.06.13 - 11:16pm
SOME time last week, one of our state religious departments proudly announced that it had subjected 24 women and 17 men to a whipping for the crime of incest and sex outside of marriage. They even recommended that the next round should be done in public because the sight of the agonised faces of the victims is apparently sure to induce fear in anyone watching, thereby lessening these crimes. * +

urvoice1 20.06.13 - 11:16pm
Actually, if anyone has ever watched public spectacles such as canings and any sort of public humiliation of individuals, the last thing that happens is that the audience feels empathy for the victims. Instead they tend to take the side of the punisher and encourage them even more, partly in the belief that this makes them seem more righteous. Few ever put themselves in the shoes of the humiliated, believing that it will never happen to them. * +

urvoice1 20.06.13 - 11:16pm
If my 13-year-old daughter reads that women are being caned for incest, what do I tell her? Dont commit incest so you wont be whipped? Does that make sense when it is unlikely to be her fault? * +

urvoice1 20.06.13 - 11:18pm
This shameful whipping episode illuminates the illness that besets our society today, where the fear of what others think overrides the fear of being unjust to another. Indeed, the injustice being perpetrated is not just against 24 women but all Malaysian women who now feel that the state is the last place to go to for help. * +

vampboy 20.06.13 - 11:18pm
The people who watch will realize when it finally hits them. Pathetic excuse of human beings *

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