Death sentence to acid throwers

Recently, The Bangalore High Court awarded life imprisonment to an acid thrower. He had burnt to ashes the face, both eyes, nose and one ear of the victim. The punishment was a step in the right direction but I think still short of full justice.

Throwing acid is a crime worse than murder. When a person is killed, it’s a few minutes or maybe hours of agony and it’s over. Throwing acid is a life long torture. It’s like hanging between life and death. It kills the self respect, self image and everything a person could have in life.

Whether we accept or not, life is easy for a beautiful / handsome / smart looking person and equally tough for an ugly one. A person bearing a disfigured face is worst of the lot. Disfiguring the face disfigures the whole life of a person. If the attacker had a little conscience, he would have killed the person instead. Acid throwing is a sadist's weapon of choice, lesser risk of punishment, more harm to the victim.

Secondly the act of acid throwing cannot be done in hot blood, the person needs to procure the acid and plan the attack. It should be treated at par with cold blooded murder when awarding punishments.

Also, unlike other laws, a strong law for acid attacks cannot be misused by anyone. I don’t think any person in the world would be ready to go blind and burn ones face to misuse a law.

Dementors

J.K. Rowling introduced an interesting concept. Harry Potter has creatures called dementors. They feed by consuming the happiness in the air around them. When dementors are around, people start feeling depressed, and relive their worst memories. Those kept in the company of a dementor for too long are often driven insane

I have actually seen people like that in real life. They suck the happiness out of everyone around them. They create negative energies everywhere they go, and feel a sense of satisfaction by making people sad. That satisfaction is driven by a hatred towards everyone. People actually say things like "he's driving me insane" about them.

I think hope and spirits follow the pattern of heat. They flow from higher potential to lower potential. If we are around an energetic and high spirited person, we start feeling some of that energy. Vice versa for a depressed person. The dementors keep their own potential so low that all optimism around starts flowing into them. It takes a strong person not to be affected by a dementor.

Why I hate religion

1. People change with time, culture changes with time, way of life changes with time, values change with time. How can one set of static rules apply to all times ? How can rules which were made eons ago apply on today's world?

Stale water in a pot rots, dead body in a coffin rots, anything which doesn't change with time rots. No wonder many major religions of the world are rotting.

2. I know how to live my life. The things that I don't know about, I would want to figure them out myself. I don't want someone else dictating terms of my life and how I should live it.

3. I don't believe any of those rules came from god. They were all framed by people keeping their selfish interests in mind rather than looking at the world's interest in mind.

4. The world history is full of examples, the only things religion leads to is wars, deaths, jihad, crusade, burning people at stake. I am yet to see large scale kindness in the name of religion.

RELIGION is a synonym of EVIL

I would exclude Buddhism from this talk because I am yet to see Buddhists waging a war to kill people or forcing their views on others, nor do they have an expansionist agenda.

Some people protested about the above line as to why just exclude buddhism and there are other religions also which do not harm anyone. So I am striking out the above line altogether.

I would also want to clarify that this post is regarding the concept of organised religion as a whole. Not all religions suffer from those ills, but I feel on the whole, a world without religion would be a better place.

Fear

Me: Fear is a direct outcome of hope and prosperity.

Friend: Fear is realizing your weakness and vulnerability.

Me: Hopelessness removes fear, depression removes fear.

Friend: Yes, they do, when the fear is overcome by resignation. But you resign only to those things which you know are costly but still bearable.

Me: You sometimes resign to life, and then nothing else matters. Depression can take away fear of life also.

Friend: We tend to resign on longish things, but not on spilt second things, and then you only feel primal fear. Once you have the time to rationalize that fear, you then tend to calm down and resign and become hopeless. So if you are faced with a 5 second danger, you will have intense fear, not hopelessness.

Me: hmmm, primal fear is not logical, it's instinctive. You need to put logic into it to remove it. You fear when are not prepared to defend against an attack. There must be uncertainty for fear. Certainty of either victory or defeat kills fear.