Saturday, July 28, 2007

The social ills of our society

One of the very much social ill that has grasped my attention is the social discrimination of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.This can happen because the society is not clearly informed or enlightened about the infection itself.For it is to say that the reason why people fear something is that people never really got around to understand that something.IF he is not familiar to that something,surely he would have fear it.It is the same as putting yourself in the midst of the amazon jungle.Surely you must feel the fear pinching the heartstrings of your soul,for you do not really understand or informed about the amazon forest.The tribes living inside have conquered this fear by getting to know their surroundings,if their primitive tribe can do such simple things,why not you?You must firstly know that there are very few but undeniable ways of contracting the HIV/AIDS infection from an infectee.The two very most accurate but common to most way is by blood, or by unprotected sex.Trust me,living with people diagnosed with AIDS/HIV is not really an issue.The health department should really set up guidelines,campaigns or even roadshows to promote the knowledge of HIV/AIDS among the society.People will be needed to be informed,for as a developing country,we must improve our standards of knowledge as well.Furthermore,non governmental organisations or NGOs should pass out their message via the sole provided of information through out the nation-the press or any other means of mass media.Schools should have seminars,talks as so to educate young minds so that they shall not discriminate people diagnose with HIV/AIDS in the not-so-distant future.HIV/AIDS infectees are human beings,they have feelings just like you and me.Think about them before opening your mouth,put yourself in their shoes before saying anything.

Death Penalty and Me

With regards to the justice system we have here in our beloved country,I would really like to express my utter disagreement with the Death Penalty Act.We really must think,is it really worthwhile killing a another person for the crimes he have committed?I shall take the example of a murderer.True,I would not deny that the person has committed murder,but my question is why would the law(having known that it is clearly prohibited to take another person's life)permit the death penalty to be taken in practice?Would the law be so slow as to stoop to the grounds of the accused as to take away his life.Wouldn't that action be putting the law at the mercy of its own hands for committing a murder too?As we would have heard it,'No one in the world have rights to his partner's soul'...the law is created by people,which in this case and every other case mean that the law has totally no right to give the accused the chair.I would vouch for the abolishment of the death penalty enactment..You see,by giving the accused the chair,it clearly means that the law,and the people governing it is just running away from the problem at hand.What they should be committed to do is to annalyse and sought out the problem.Some people might point out the saying "you scratch my back,and I'll scratch yours".It means to say that if you take away a person's life,you shall repay fully with your own.We must also keep in mind what a great man once said "an eye for an eye,will turn the world blind".The people governing the law should abolish the death penalty act and reinstate it with punishment such as "100 slashes of whip' or "life imprisonment".Life is just too precious to be taken away.