Human - inhumane

I have always tried to believe that there are good and bad faces associated with every human being. It is highly unlikely that you can remain good to everyone you know you come across in your life. Yes we do have a few exceptional cases (one such example that comes straight to my imagination is Mother Teresa), one perhaps needs very special blessings from the almighty to remain good to everyone all through out the life. Even when human beings generally have a darker side associated with them, the brighter side tries to overpower the other side. After all that is what is desired out of a human being.

The goodness and the other side in a human being is controlled by many factors, the two most significant factors to me are :

• Conscience
• Upbringing

While we do have a fair control over the second aspect, I do not know who and how the other factor is controlled. There might be many theories associated with that as well, but to my naive mind its baffling. It is always pleasant when one tries to concentrate only on the positive aspects of a human being. And believe me it is far more peaceful too. But living in todays world can we completely ignore the sort of crime existing here. I number of crimes committed is not the worrying factor to me, but it is the changing nature of crime that is worrying me. May be it is because we have started ignoring the almighty. May be... How else can one think about or justify the acts of Nithari or the recent kidney scam in India. I have pointed out the cases in India as I am part of this country and it hurts me the most when I see this sort of crime committed in my country. The case is no better in other parts of the world. We had cases where one fine day a young man opens fire in the University campus because of some crazy love failure, we have acts of terrorism happening almost everywhere in the world. In these cases a class or sect of people of certain caste/religion/race are being targeted by people of a different caste/religion/race. I am not sure how one can justify these sort of acts, how can one think of toying with lives of other human beings. Either people do not realize the value of a human life or they have lost their own conscience. Thinking about the well being of you and your loved ones is a pretty normal thing. The well being as such can have many parameters like wealth, health, pleasure etc etc. But when these things come at the cost of lives of other human being it is damn appalling.

How can a country ever thrive when the people who are supposed to take care of human life and health are themselves toying with human life. How can a country prosper when the very future of the country (the kids) are treated like objects to satisfy ones lust (perhaps the Nithari case is more than a story of lust, the more I think or hear about it the more disgusted I feel). The positive side to these stories is that the common man of this country understands how horrendous these crimes are and at every given opportunity people have voiced there concern over such issues. The way the Nithari convicts were (man)handled in jail and the court just shows the amount of frustration people have over the same issue. But perhaps the entire society needs to step up to promote and preach the significance of nobility in a human life. Everyone has a right to grow, grow to whatever limits but the growth should never be at the cost of other human beings and their lives. We might have to rake our conscience to see where we want to take our life, our society and our country to. And hopefully we all can move into the right (and noble) direction.