Do you realize that the underlined lines reveals an emotionally compromised mindset? You cannot see the picture in its entirelty. You fail to understand that you are but a small part of a much larger picture and hence the underlined lines. The article you've quoted reveals how disgustingly hypocritical, ignorant and emotionally vulnerable Indian society is as a whole. Can you only emotionally connect with a Nirbhaya and not with Keenan or Reuben? Or do you need the media's help to do so? Don't you realize how Lawyers professionally undermine themselves when they scream "maaut ki saaza"? All throughout the Delhi-Gang rape case, from the day it was first reported till recently when the death penalty was awarded, rapes still continued in undiminishing numbers.
Oh please, I can clearly see it for what it is and I don't agree with the author on some points while I agree to some. At the end of the day, after all that introspection on how people behave, all she is trying to say is that this death sentence is not a solution to the problem at hand and the people demanding for it and celebrating it is just a knee jerk reaction. I have no problem at all agreeing about that part and I do think that such mass mentality is stupid and hypocrisy at its best.
I know very well that rapes (and other crimes) still continue every day and I am fully aware that Nirbhaya's case is just the tip of the ice berg and known to people only because of the media publicity and there are even more brutal incidents happening in the country every day every hour. Even the people who know about Nibhaya's case through media publicity don't have a clue about the extent of brutality inflicted on her which is equivalent to the torture chambers of yester years and the worst thing is that there are many other such cases as well.
The irony is that the very people who were holding banners and placard's condemning the incident in general causing a ruckus and nuisance were happily harassing girls from the next day onwards. That is how hypocritical our country is.
But the question is whether any of this analysis and with her general agreements/disagreements with the punishment given and comparison with other crimes , does she or for that matter you yourself have a better solution to stop this menace? Do you think that people who barely have any respect for the law or would reform or does she at least have a better way of punishing them or some plan on how to bring about parental accountability as she pointed out? Do you have any idea how many repeat offenders are there when it comes to rapes? She talks about a lot of things which do need some careful thinking and Its all fine and dandy to be philosophical about the real solution, but at the end of the day, what is is the immediate remedy for these menaces? I don't see any. That's why I called articles like these stupid considering that at the end, all that such articles suggest is that this death sentence is somehow wrong or suggest/imply that there must be a better solution without giving any.
Punishment given as part of upholding justice has always been about avenging (and I would bring your attention to the fact that avenge is not the same thing as revenge) the wrong doing. Before the British, our laws in yester years were always about "eye for an eye" kind and it apparently worked well. But now, as far as avenging goes, I am pretty sure that this poor girl and so many other victims can never get justice in our country and I am not sure whether we would ever get to a stage where potential criminals are discouraged from doing crimes because of our legal system. But the least that our legal system can make sure is that such criminals don't get a chance to repeat such grievous crimes. Either lock them up for life or end their life altogether and I would choose the latter if for nothing else, but simply for the practical reason that if such people are locked up, it means that the tax payer is also getting penalized in a sense. I would rather that such menaces be put down with haste.
I am I happy about the death sentence?, yes I am happy, but I am not stupid enough to go celebrate it like the stupid people in our country that are doing it. I am not going to wave a flag "India wins" and feel great about it. If anything, I am ashamed that this is what our country is like.
We don't have provisions in our laws to punish these criminals on equal terms as they deserve, but at the very least, I believe that the punishment is correct from a practical point of view at least. My only gripe is that this case took 9 long months in a fast track court and God (if such a being exists) only knows how many more years in subsequent appeals.