Prevention of Crime - A bit excessive

Preventive Detention or Prevention of crime, we hear these things often in today's highly volatile world. Prevention is better than cure, the old cliche goes that way. In terms of crime, there is no cure after a crime is commited. The punishment is just to prevent the recurrence of the same. It aims to

1. Prevent more people from commiting the crime, the punishment given to one fears the other potential criminals
2. Detains the criminal and tries to imbibe in him/her a social correctness.

But the victim is not getting back what he/she lost. So what does the police do to ensure a crime free world. Recently there were arrests in california of people who on chat tried to seduce minor girls and who would have done that if they had got a chance. Investigative officers over chat posed as minor girls and found that these people have a motive to commit crime.

Now in this situation, the people have not done any crime in reality. The investigative officers have checked if these people would commit this crime if given a chance. Is this prevention of crime? Prevention of crime comes in when there is a real victim who is about to be affected by the actions of the criminal. Then the criminal is arrested to save the victim. But where there was no likely victim and the cops do a check on your inclination to crime and detain you, it becomes atrocious.

May be 1 out of these 29 people might have done a mischief in reality. That one crime has been averted. But 29 people are arrested for that one person to be stopped. Normal people would definitely commit a crime if given a chance. Given a chance will a person take a bribe doesnt really make it a crime. If the person does take a bribe in a real situation, only then does it qualify as a criminal act.

On the one side we see such gross intrusions into Human Rights and on the other we see HR activists claiming to bring down capitol punishment, reduce punishments and all that. That other side tends to make criminals feel safe, while the first one tends to make mortals feel unsafe. Both are wrong. The need is to have a strict punishment regime that deters criminals, but to apply it only when a crime is commited.

To be Inspired

Is Greatness a sum quanta of the positives and negatives in a person. To say the more positive the result is, the greater the person is. Goodness can be measured this way. But Greatness is being devoid of negatives. Theoretically the absence of negatives.

We have in our beleifs characterised many as greats and have been inspired by them. But in Today's media-centric world, the research on every individual's life goes ahead at a brisk pace. Sometimes with unfounded information, some time with solid foundations, there are many allegations on the character of people whom we have considered as greats until then.

This character assasination happens at a pace much higher than mortals can comprehend. I have been inspired by certain people in my life. And the public figures among those have been criticized by the media, by certain books et al. I personally have not been able to answer many of those criticisms. For I personally am not completely aware. Any new knowledge leads to a Re-Orientation in thought.

So what do I do then. Go ahead ditch my love for that character, that person and think he/she was not all that I envisaged. Because any negatives in the character means the person is not great any longer. So until we find people bereft of negatives, we cannot be inspired. But then for every great personality from the world, there would be criticisms and we cannot be inspired by anyone until we read all the sides of the life of that person in all the dimensions.

Now to know a person as great and to be inspired doesnt really need all the character analysis. It is just some catchy inspiring thought from that person. May be other opinions about that person might change, there might be claims for which we might not be able to respond to. But still we can stick to the personality we have imagined and be inspired.

For the world needs role models and by going in-depth we might squander away the very few who quality. Instead of saying No one was Great until now and hence No one can be in the future, we can always model our life on some people we have by ourselves considered as greats.

Arranged in Heaven

Choose to live with a girl with whom you can talk at your old age and not one with whom you can romance at an young age is something I heard. May be choosing a life partner is one trick thats the toughest in the world. Ok Iam no way near this task right now. Just thought of it and getting goosebumps already.

But Is the choice in our hands really. Does the system here work that way. The problem with arranged marriages is you neither know whether the person is compatible with you for romance or is good to talk with. What can you know in the few minutes of talk. If at all after talking for a while you are not confident of getting along what can you do in our social structure. You cant go back on your promises.

Ofcourse promises can be broken even after marriage but that is not taken in the right sense in our world. So you might end up squandering both your young as well as old ages. Love marriages are a different ball game bcoz you might not understand problems of the future. It might be the right choice when you are young, but might end up on the wrong side when you are old. But how many of us are expected to find a love and get the love returned. Two sided love stories successfully turning into marriage are rare yaar.

But a life of togetherness is expected to change it all. You get to love a person because you have been with them and you just cant miss them. Its like looking for your newspaper in the morning. If you dont find it one day you feel lonely. The same with the life partner probably(for both guys and gals). This hope has kept alive our system of marriages with all its checks and balances. That is why we are yet to come to terms with the changing world of KANK or JOK.

What would I expect from a girl I marry. I would seek her to be confident, have a personality, an ego and a self and ofcourse good looks. Because these things will shape my kids. And what does she get in return. A person who cannot take care of himself, who does have a king size ego and an even bigger laziness. But she can be assured of no change after marriage. Can get only this much of an appearance. She can expect a person who will care for her but will never express the care in any proper ways.

But when every person expects the best, the law of averages is constantly in work to bring our expectations down to practical limits. Some girl with much expectations will be made to accept me and I will be made to accept that someone and the knot will be tied someday. After all this writing about the problems with arranged marriages I know if not for that system in place guys like me cannot find girls. Hence I hope the system accidentally finds the girl of my type and hand her out to me. But there are miles to go before all that happens.