War is not over..?
with saddam overthrown and his sons killed,one would assume iraq will soon have a bright future and everyone would be happy. however hidden beneath all..the tortures still continue.
the torture endured by iraqi prisoners had been highlighted today. they had been striped naked,sodomized, beaten and even pissed on by the american and british soldiers. there had been assult with live wires, and worse still photographs taken while on the act with the soldies posing behind as if they had achieved something great by torturing the inmates.
i am not pro US nor pro Iraq. each country has it's own pros and cons. look at it in the simple human eye. what kind of satisfaction do they get by doing all this? we look in utter distaste when a cat chews the corpse of the bird that it had killed..if killing for food is horrible,how would we define torturing for satisfaction? what kind of craving is that?pure atrocity...
it's not just in this war..from saddam's regime to the tibetan activist to the untouchabled in india,torture had still been going on. there was an article in TIME not long ago abt a woman lawyer who was punished severely(raped,sodomized,asked to sit on a broken bottle etc etc etc) until she almost lost her mind. what drives people to do such things? there was also another acticle which i read not long ago abt the agony faced by the dalits (untouchables) in india.
Torture could be justified for saving lives. if some lunatic hides a suitcase containing a bomb in an undisclosed location, torturing him/her to find the location, before it goes off might be considered a good thing by some.however,to torment for pleasure,to satisfy the craving..no one could draw the line of justification for that.
the child soldiers,forced to the battle field in some countries..at the tender age,they learn the pleasure of killing and raping and seeing blood. there has also been the practice of drinking the blood in some places.so does that mean that there is certain "thing" in every human that, fed with the right environment,invokes the animal pleasure in us? the mind is a funny thing..it can remember everything or forget everything..it can make u successful or it can make you crazy.-http://home.no.net/rrpriddy/P/10mind.html
all these should stop. no one can decide what to do with the next human. no one has the right to agonize someone else. i guess now what my south african friend (ken) said was right...maybe it is better to shun civilization and living reclusely..feeding yourself and living for today not for the future.
however..if the seed of animal instinct of torture has been planted into us ever since we were born..what could be done to chop off the tree and kill the roots..completely?
on lighter note...going back to campus tomorrow..oh boy..that's another TORTURE..sigh!
the torture endured by iraqi prisoners had been highlighted today. they had been striped naked,sodomized, beaten and even pissed on by the american and british soldiers. there had been assult with live wires, and worse still photographs taken while on the act with the soldies posing behind as if they had achieved something great by torturing the inmates.
i am not pro US nor pro Iraq. each country has it's own pros and cons. look at it in the simple human eye. what kind of satisfaction do they get by doing all this? we look in utter distaste when a cat chews the corpse of the bird that it had killed..if killing for food is horrible,how would we define torturing for satisfaction? what kind of craving is that?pure atrocity...
it's not just in this war..from saddam's regime to the tibetan activist to the untouchabled in india,torture had still been going on. there was an article in TIME not long ago abt a woman lawyer who was punished severely(raped,sodomized,asked to sit on a broken bottle etc etc etc) until she almost lost her mind. what drives people to do such things? there was also another acticle which i read not long ago abt the agony faced by the dalits (untouchables) in india.
Torture could be justified for saving lives. if some lunatic hides a suitcase containing a bomb in an undisclosed location, torturing him/her to find the location, before it goes off might be considered a good thing by some.however,to torment for pleasure,to satisfy the craving..no one could draw the line of justification for that.
the child soldiers,forced to the battle field in some countries..at the tender age,they learn the pleasure of killing and raping and seeing blood. there has also been the practice of drinking the blood in some places.so does that mean that there is certain "thing" in every human that, fed with the right environment,invokes the animal pleasure in us? the mind is a funny thing..it can remember everything or forget everything..it can make u successful or it can make you crazy.-http://home.no.net/rrpriddy/P/10mind.html
all these should stop. no one can decide what to do with the next human. no one has the right to agonize someone else. i guess now what my south african friend (ken) said was right...maybe it is better to shun civilization and living reclusely..feeding yourself and living for today not for the future.
however..if the seed of animal instinct of torture has been planted into us ever since we were born..what could be done to chop off the tree and kill the roots..completely?
on lighter note...going back to campus tomorrow..oh boy..that's another TORTURE..sigh!
posted by BluePixie @ 4:26 PM
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