Shocking!!! is how I would react to yesterdays killing at the Virginia University. 33 dead including a professor of Indian origin, an Indian student and still counting. This is not the first incident of its kind in the US. Leaves me thinking, whether the so called developed world is really developed after all!
This wasn't the first incident of a gunman going berserk. Its happened before in the same country. There are some other incidents which come to my mind.
1. Online chatters in a suicide chat room encouraging a man to commit suicide live. That such
chat rooms exist, is reason enough to believe that theres something seriously wrong.
2. Paedophiles exchanging views & snaps & graphic description on the chat.
3. Incest chat rooms discussing sex with close relatives, parents, siblings. They're even talking
about a legislation making incest no longer a crime.
4. Date rapes. Websites promoting date rape drugs.
Where is the youth headed? While we have never really experienced shooting rampages, like the one at Virginia, in India, its no reason to believe that it will not happen in the near future. We already have suicides happening on the IIT campuses.
- Why do children spend more time on video games than on cricket,soccer,badminton?
- Why does the youth believe in making friends online than going out & meeting people?
- If US is a developed country, why do citizens require guns? And why are firearms so easy to
get there?
- Why do parents spend more time at work than with children?
- Why do children never get to hear a no from parents
These are just a few questions which come to my mind. But the point I'm trying to make here is that the society is changing. Our value system is undergoing a huge change. Adultery, pre-marital sex, infidelity, divorce considered alien 30 years back is rampant nowadays. Are these really a sign of a progress? Or the side effects of economic development? They say that economic prosperity shakes the value fabric of the society.
Till the time we realise the value of sustained growth, till the time we realise the importance of social values, till the time we realise the significance of family bonding such incidents will continue to happen.
Who knows that the next incident of a student going on a shooting spree in the campus may be at one of the IITS? Hope not!
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Reminds me of a song...."Where is the love"?
Yes Abhi - The love seems to be getting sucked out of our lives with the machines we ourselves build.
thought provoking...but the solutions are complex...we have had a shooting event in IISc, Bnagalore last year. But that had the terrorist angle. Anyhow I am hoping the campuses around the world becomes safer for my children..wishful thinking you say! sigh!
Yes DC - Thats a hope we all nurture. Solutions do lie in the looking at the simple things in between all the complexities we have weaved. But then again, wishful thinking!
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