today i read a very disturbing write up in the news paper about dog haters and their tactics to kill dogs that they have been promoting on the social network orkut. their tactics are utterly barbaric and i shudder to think how brutal and inhuman can human mind get. i wonder what makes them think on those lines!
all the tactics described by them can only be generated by a pervert mind. and what makes them perverted? well, many a times the perpetrators of such abuses were themselves victims of such abuses when they were young. and now that they are grown up, they want to wield power over others this way so that their hurt self esteem finds some sadistic solace this way. or they may even have a sociopathic personality disorder, where in the persons do not have well developed sense of right and wrong (moral development) and they can hardly feel any remorse for the kind of barbarism that they involve in! they all need psychological help. and help given becomes effective only when the person himself / herself desires a change in their personality. such changes can not be brought about by mere external help.
those of you on orkut, if you come across such hate mails, please report it to cyber crime policing so that they can be identified and provided correctional measures.
all the tactics described by them can only be generated by a pervert mind. and what makes them perverted? well, many a times the perpetrators of such abuses were themselves victims of such abuses when they were young. and now that they are grown up, they want to wield power over others this way so that their hurt self esteem finds some sadistic solace this way. or they may even have a sociopathic personality disorder, where in the persons do not have well developed sense of right and wrong (moral development) and they can hardly feel any remorse for the kind of barbarism that they involve in! they all need psychological help. and help given becomes effective only when the person himself / herself desires a change in their personality. such changes can not be brought about by mere external help.
those of you on orkut, if you come across such hate mails, please report it to cyber crime policing so that they can be identified and provided correctional measures.
6 comments:
First, I should confess my ignorance about'orkut'. As some one with an active cyberspace habit, I would say that such postings are plenty in cyberspace. I tend to look at them as if they are looking glass of the human minds concerned. Prosecuting people with such mindsets is difficult as it will be way down the priority list of law enforcing agencies.
Talking about dogs reminds me the apprehensions that my Western friends express when they plan to visit India on business or as plain tourists. There are only two topics for the conversation when we meet -how to avoid getting stomach bugs, and how to handle stray dogs, the usual carriers of rabies. There were newspaper reports of increased cases of people dying from rabies after their single visit to India. One young woman's mother tearfully said on the local TV station that her daughter would have lived had she not caressed a lovely looking stray puppy in a market street in India which licked her hand enthusiastically. In Mysore, during my younger days, very often stray dogs appeared from nowhere in our street. Residents used to panick as they knew cases where deaths occured from stray dog bites. We were unable to fathom the mystery of stray dogs suddenly descending in numbers in our street, until one day I met by chance my old school's keeper who was now a driver of a dog catching van. During our conversation I asked him about the episodes of stray dogs in our street. In confidence he unravlelled the mystery of stray dogs appearance. His job was to round up stray dogs and put the healthy ones in a pound and destroy the others. He argued that if they caught all stray dogs and put them in a pound or put them out, there may come a time when there will be no stray dog left to roam in streets and this
meant the end of his livelihood. Hence he said with grin 'we recycle the stray dogs by releasing them in groups in new areas (where the residents have no way of recognising familiar animals) and that way our jobs security is achieved".
Thank you, mr ram, for those comments. I agree that plenty of such writings are there on the cyberspace and they only mirror the make up of certain minds. Orkut is a google’s social network community consisting mostly of youth in the age range of 16 to 25 years (there are many who are beyond both ends of this range). Such hate mails, when circulated and read by other readers with similar tendencies, should not lead to more such acts that may harm a particular population (here the population of dogs). Hence that was a cautionary note.
As you have mentioned, it is true that stray dogs are a big menace in certain parts of Bangalore city and many instances of death and severe morbidity have occurred before. No wonder these news items send a cold shiver down the spine of anybody, more so with people who are dog-phobic and also those who intend to come to the city as tourists. The city corporation did bring in some programmes to alleviate this menace and you have described how some ‘poura kaarmikaas’ (corporation workers)create loopholes into these programmes with a selfish agenda. But none of these reasons can be an excuse to torture and kill the animal in a barbaric way as described in those hate mails (I shudder to even mention them here). We need to evolve a dignified way to alleviate any menace in a society and not take law into our own hands or device inhuman methods to reduce the peril – reflection of a diseased mind.
But given the amount of slaughtering done for meat eating, I have trouble believing that the relatively (compared to the meat industry) small number of dogs killed for their threat to society poses such a moral quandary.
And not to mention the crushing poverty in many parts of India.
That's horrible! How can anyone hate dogs? Somehow, I cannot see things from that angle. I cannot even imagine how people can even think of torturing animals. I heard, 2 teenagers put a pup into a preassure cooker and cooked it alive. They were later arrested, and when they were asked about their crime they said "We did it for fun, there was ntohing wrong!" They didn;t even think what they did was wrong! I wonder how people can live like that without remorse.
aamod, i am talking here only about some hate mails being circulated in a network called 'orkut' where some members are advocating certain inhuman ways of killing stray dogs and puppies. and these people are taking pride in describing the modus operendi that each one is indulging in and the evil glee that they are expressing about their operation and encouraging others to follow the same! highly condemnable.
lakshmi, welcome.
it is indeed very sad that we have to listen to such horrendous stories, but it is true that such people exist. i as a counsellor look at such acts more as a psychological disorder needing help from professionals.
There are many abilities a human can be endowed with, deprived of which one can say he is 'disabled' or more gentle word is 'impaired' etc. Being without sight or hearing etc one is disabled but can be overcome and does not become a real disability beyond a certain extent. Compassion is defined as the ability to put oneself in another's skin. Of all the abilities, being without this ability is the greatest and one and only real disability. Hope these people learn to overcome this disability!
latha, hope you are doing fine. I am want to write off-topic a bit. I have been following your contributions on RwB for quite a while. I visited your site only today though I was curious earlier. I think presentation could be a bit more organised - I was not sure whch was a comment and which a post initially. But it looks pretty interesting so far and I know you're not a technical person and over time it will definitely look a lot better :)
I would really like to visit/meet you some time, I think you would enjoy meeting my son Abhinav (see latest post on my site) and hope you would be able to accept my invitation and come home sometime if feasible. I stay near MES college in Malleswaram.
Thanks,
Sanjay
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