A friend recently came up to me for help on an essay. The question read something like "A recent event ( popular or personal ) that seemed wrong to you and how would you handle it in retrospect ". I helped him brainstorm through some of the options and we came up with something good around the 2G scam which he wanted to write about.
I too thought a bit about the question from my perspective and this is what I thought I would have written if the question was posted to me.
This event happened about 8 months back when I was in a market with a female friend. A couple of boys walked close by and used some foul language for my friend. Both my friend and I were offended but we just walked past ignoring the 2 boys. Looking at this incident in retrospect I believe it would have been better if the two of us had confronted the boys as by keeping quiet we were silently encouraging such behavior.
We read about numerous incidents of eve teasing, kidnapping and rape in newspapers and I believe most of the criminals involved in such incidents indulge in comparatively smaller incidents like what we faced. It is because no one raises an alarm at that time thinking it’s not worth the hassle that these people start believing in the fact that they can get away with almost anything.
I thus strongly believe it is very important to confront perpetrators of such incidents as far as possible so that we do not encourage graver crimes. Thus looking at the incident in retrospect I think I would have confronted the boys and would have raised an alarm. Being a crowded marketplace I think it would have been extremely embarrassing for the two boys and hopefully this experience would have taught them a lesson and ensured that don’t think of doing any such things in future.
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