Cruelty in Our Society

August 4th, 2007 at 15:57 · Filed Under Blogging, Crimes, General, Philosophy, Social 

It was horrifying to hear about a rape and murder case happened recently at Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. The victim was a UTAR student. She was brutally raped and sodomized before she was murdered. The crime rate of arm-robbery, murder and rape is escalating at an alarming rate. Last month, there were many robbery and rape cases in the state of Johor. What has happened to our society?

Last year, while I was seeding a software development project at UTAR and I got a chance to work with some students. We planned to do a live data collection from a GPS device which required us to drive around in the car with the GPS device connected to a notebook computer to log live GPS data. We chose to do it at night when road traffic was low. We were having some problems to get the data in from the GPS device and we were resolving the problem right outside the main gate of the PD campus (FICT campus in Section 13 PJ). It was dark and I noticed some people drove by. I look into their faces and I could sense these people were not good people based on their facial appearance. I was on all alert while the students resolving the problems. I also saw a few students who stayed back in school to complete their assignments/project came out from the campus. Male and female. I noticed they did not have the alertness while leaving the campus. They talked and laughed all the way from the campus to their cars parked outside the campus gate. I had also noticed the two security guards were staring at the female students.

A few months ago, a female student at one of UTAR campus in PJ (Section 13) was almost raped by a security guard. Why didn’t this incident ring the alarm and knock some alertness and commonsense into students, the DSA (Department of Student Affairs), local police and the public?

I was talking (Skyping) to a female friend last night. She was working as a kindergarten teacher in Cheras and had moved back to her Penang home with her parents some time ago. She was kind of lonely in the new environment. A couple of months ago, one day, she Skyped me and told me that she was not in a good mood. She sounded scary as though something had happened to her. I got her to talk about her feeling and she told me that she had been drug-raped by a guy appeared to be her new found boy friend. Now she is working in KL and we chatted for a while. During the conversation, I found that she was kind of materialistic. I asked her what was her goal in life and she told me she wanted to make a lot of money. I asked her why so. She told me without money she could not survive in this capitalism world so couldn’t anyone.

I told her that she could not be rich just because she was a kindergarten teacher. She agreed but she argued that she could make more money with other job and she sounded like she wanted to get another job. I told her that she should not have an objective just to make more money. She refused to agree with me. The conversation did not last very long simply because I did not want to talk to her further in this topic. She is extremely stubborn and has very shallow vision and her thinking is so simple and naive.

I personally think that it was her objective which led her into her ordeal. She was having an “objective” so that she would not be lonely. She was having an “objective” to venture into opening a cafe in Penang hoping to make more money and friends. I feel sorry for her and I don’t think I can change her taking into account that she is stubborn and with very low education level. She left school after her SPM (form 5 or 9th grade and how could she involve herself as an educator while she does not have enough education?) I will write about the education issue later when I have inspiration and time for it.

Young people (particularly those local university students) nowadays lack of social skills. I encountered many who simply refused or ignored the importance of getting socialized. Socialize in this context means having a communication with people outside of university and their circle of friends. I have, many times, told the students who worked with me to pick up the phone and call the vendors to check prices and availability of certain components. They did not want to call. They emailed instead. And most often times, they did not receive any reply. They liked to resort to quick and easy solution by asking friends or lecturers to help acquiring the necessary components. And these friends and lecturers would most willing want to help. This leads to the lack of social skills which can develop a person’s instinct to identify good and evil intention of a person.

Like the aforementioned friend of mine, she lacks social skills while she is so engrossed in her money-making objective and at the same time, her loneliness and desperation (to make more money) led her to suffer an ordeal.

The number of cases of break-in burglary has increased tremendously at Bukit Beruang (Malacca) where I live. Many of these victims are university students, and of course, include some local residents. The students’ attitude, ignorant, carelessness and senseless mind have created a great opportunity for criminals to lurk and grow in the area. Many of these young students’ left their home for the first time to study in university which they feel so prestigious to be a “University Students” and therefore having the naive thinking and lacking commonsense of security. Many of them think highly of themselves and ignore the facts that danger is always stalking them without their consciousnes. These naive senseless young people put their own security into other hands. If you drive around the neighborhood, it is not difficult to find these “houses” infested by careless young people have the doors and gates wide opened inviting the watchful eyes of criminals.

Having good exam results and being a university student or scholar does not mean they can take care of themselves. Many of these adolescents have not learned to take care of themselves and to be independent.

It is a very common scenario to see these university students going to cafe in downtown Taman Melaka Raya and many other parts of the town to take a moment out of their busy studying and “exam” schedule, gossiping and usually with aimless objectives. They should be studying or discussing in school library. But they choose to have an easy and relaxing moment with their “friends”. It is a huge difference you will see in these local university students and university students in the western world. They feel lonely away from home and they are desperate to find partners and friends to fill in the vacuum in their heart. Some of them who are fortunate that their homes are not too far away, will go back to their mommies and daddies for a good indulgence during a two-day weekend break.

IMHO, these teenagers have been excessively pampered by their caring and loving parents to the extent that ignorance, naiveness, carelessness and senseless mind have developed in these precious “children” of the wonderful parents.

Last night chat and the brutal crime have inspired me to write this post/essay which I think it will be a good reading material and food for thoughts for some good and wise samaritans to realize what the hell is going wrong in our society. I also hope those ignorant, naive, senseless and obnoxious folks will open their eyes and hearts after reading this article and realize the danger and begin to make a change in their attitudes so make our society/world a better place to live.

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