murder they wrote
Friday, December 05, 2008 (9:16 PM)
some time ago, after constantly reading of homicides in the papers, mum grew quite disturbed by them. she said it was quite saddening to be reading of these murder cases every so often.
but i had a differing opinion.
i told her that we should feel happy or fortunate that we are reading about them. i do not mean that we should rejoice at the deaths of innocent victims. but we should be thankful that when such things happen, the papers blow a large headline over it, exhibiting their disbelief at the atrocity of the perpetrators.
these things are huge news because they do not happen often. because we are a civilised and cultured society. imagine living in a place where killings happen every day. it is in those countries that murder is no longer news. they stop publishing about killings because it has become a routine. should there be zero murders in a day, it would probably be a huge news.
ZERO DEATHS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 150 YEARS!
or something to that extent. thus, we should rejoice the fact that murder cases are huge news. should one day it becomes nothing of interest, we may begin to realise that all evolution did was make us less hairy.