HAVE WE LOST REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE AND RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER?

Mar 25, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I am troubled. There’s a disturbing trend that has been permeating our society. I’m referring to the ready use of weapons, and particularly the knife – not to cut or carve meat, but to chop and plunge into the chest or abdomen or limb of a fellow human being – brother, sister, husband, wife, neighbour! What really is on the mind of the perpetrator when he/she deals that sometimes fatal blow? Do these individuals think of the consequences of their actions? of the agony that follows for those whose loved ones are disfigured, dismembered or dead; and for the perpetrator, the many years in prison, away from family and friends and pursuit of meaningful existence (if spared the hangman’s noose!).
I’m calling on us all to take stock! Have we lost regard for human life and respect for each other? Is it that we need counselling sessions on anger management and constructive reminders of the value of human life and the importance of every human being?
Why should one school child clobber another in the head and fracture his skull because of a misunderstanding? I remember school days long ago when disagreements were sometimes settled with fistic encounters, normally postponed until Friday, but never with the use of a weapon or debilitating tool!
There’s a song that says: “We need to get back to the basics of life.” I would like to suggest two basics – Fear of God and regard for man (each other). If we are undergirded by those values, we would not, indeed cannot hurt or despise each other.
As I close…Can the report be true that a practising lawyer spat in the face of a police officer performing security functions at his residence as he hurled derogatory and racist remarks at her while threatening her with a gun and that this troubling abuse persisted beyond those premises? Thankfully, this Nation is blessed with a professional Police Force, which dispenses justice without regard to social class or political connections, and of course, a credible and competent Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC)!
Or am I singing with John Lennon in his well- known song “Imagine”…”You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…?

Claudia Heywood

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