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Is retaliation a solution to poverty?

 
 
Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2012 07:04 pm
The following tragedy is purely-hypothetical and fictional:

An individual is born into a poor family. He is hard-working and respects right from wrong. He is treated very badly by society because he has little money. His personality is innately very compassionate. Due to mistreatment from society [due to his lack of money], he feels driven to suicide. He feels society is treating him like garbage. His life is miserable.

Because he is going to commit suicide, he feels he has nothing to lose by "punishing" society prior to "offing" himself.

He retaliates against society by executing as many minor-girls [girls below 18] as time will allow. He does NOT torture or sexually-abuse those girls, he just kills them in a rapid and painless manner.

After his revenge on society, he euthanizes himself.

The girls he killed are totally innocent of any wrongdoing towards him. So why does he kill them? Here is why:

He feels that the same society that torments poor & hard-working people is the same society that has a soft spot for minor girls. He feels that the only way to hit society where it hurts, is to harm minor girls.

When a minor girl [of any socioeconomic status] is mistreated or killed by an older man [of any socioeconomic status], the public gets very angry.

Knowing this, the guy wants to offend society as much as possible while causing the least amount of suffering to its individuals. This is why he executes so many minor girls before his suicide. Do remember, he executes the girls in a rapid manner that does not cause them any pain.

To make matters worse, other poor people who identify with his horrible situation, start turning into copycats. As more impoverished individuals commit suicide, they also take as many minor-girls with them as possible [including their own daughters and sisters!]. More and more poor people retaliate against society because of the mistreatment they receive from society. This retaliation against society eventually starts to occur in every part of the world. This become a global crisis.

How would society and the law respond to this worldwide epidemic of suicide and homicide that takes place in the ghettos? Innocent girls are being killed by their own suicidal fathers and brothers. Something has to be done.

Here is my guess at to what would happen:

There would be massive public outcry for one thing, and the media would report heavily on the issue. There would be widespread condemnation from most parts of society.

But there is one persistent issue:

How do you punish a crime if the perpetrator intentionally dies in the process of committing the crime AND other people in his situation become his copycats? Eventually, society's only choice would be to cater to the needs of the poor without expecting anything in return. Right? Otherwise, there would be endless copycating and human civilization would end.

You can't punish a criminal after he is already dead.

One can assume the rich wouldn't care but the fact that older males are murdering girl-children cause society to get so upset that immediate action takes place in a desperate attempt to keep future girls safe.

Even rich people would be outraged that male humans are killing young girls -- regardless of the socioeconomic statuses of the girls or the men killing the girls.

Also, even the baddest of bad guys would be furious about the death of the girls.

As evil as society is, it really does care about minor-girls. In prison, any man who is in for harming a girl-child -- in any manner -- will face extreme anger from other inmates. As such, he would need to be in protective-custody for his own safety.

In all fairness, however, I hold society responsible for this act of revenge. The guys killing the girls do so because society bullies them to the point where they have nothing to lose. I actually feel sorry for these impoverished individuals. Society corrupted these individuals by failing assist them. As for the murdered girls, oh well, what a pity. If society simply gave the poor what they need, then such a tragedy would be prevented.

For those of you who would like to tell yourselves "I own no one a thing", I'm pretty sure you would go back on that sentence if you realized a girl's life could be saved.

Besides, if most of the impoverished population vanished [due to this homicide and suicide], who would do the jobs normally assigned to them. I can't think of any formerly-upper-class individual who would ever allow himself to make a living by "cleaning toilets".
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2012 07:12 pm
@Warm Heart,
Have you met Charoltte31?

http://able2know.org/topic/194745-1#post-5059850
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Reply Sun 5 Aug, 2012 07:21 pm
@Butrflynet,
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