Congratulations our protests finally led to change in law and now now child rapists can be awarded death sentences. Feels satisfying.
Now let's step back and see what can be the consequences of our emotionally charged protests that left no room for the govt but to submit to popular opinion.
1) Encourage murder after rape: Since the rapist is already going to get death sentence after rape he will be more inclined to murder.
2) Disappearance after rape: The rapist may opt to kill and hide and body after rape. Without body neither rape nor murder can be proved and he can walk free, why not take that chance, afterall the child is physically incapable to resist such attempt.
Today the difference in sentencing between death and rape works as a deterrent not to murder which may not be the case anymore. The families of those innocents will never know where did their child go, what happened to her, they will never get a closure and suffer lifetime.
I won't even go into the debate of revenge, justice, correction as we are not ready for it but these consequences can be unintended outcome of our doing.
No law can save us from us, the problem is not law but the animal inside us that needs to be addressed. Many people I see updating the status with sad smilies demanding justice for Asifa are the one that readily pass lewd comments on womens whenever they get chance.
I don't know how big a deterrent this death sentence will prove to be and I hope it prevents as many rapes as possible but when it happen it's entirely possible that we see savagery that will put animals to shame.
Now let's step back and see what can be the consequences of our emotionally charged protests that left no room for the govt but to submit to popular opinion.
1) Encourage murder after rape: Since the rapist is already going to get death sentence after rape he will be more inclined to murder.
2) Disappearance after rape: The rapist may opt to kill and hide and body after rape. Without body neither rape nor murder can be proved and he can walk free, why not take that chance, afterall the child is physically incapable to resist such attempt.
Today the difference in sentencing between death and rape works as a deterrent not to murder which may not be the case anymore. The families of those innocents will never know where did their child go, what happened to her, they will never get a closure and suffer lifetime.
I won't even go into the debate of revenge, justice, correction as we are not ready for it but these consequences can be unintended outcome of our doing.
No law can save us from us, the problem is not law but the animal inside us that needs to be addressed. Many people I see updating the status with sad smilies demanding justice for Asifa are the one that readily pass lewd comments on womens whenever they get chance.
I don't know how big a deterrent this death sentence will prove to be and I hope it prevents as many rapes as possible but when it happen it's entirely possible that we see savagery that will put animals to shame.
