Inflicting pain on others is not a panacea for one’s suffering

Lynching is undoubtedly an act of cowardice. Some people, without trying to rectify their own mistakes, are in a habit of blindly dumping their frustrations on hapless victims. Why does such a thing happen? Ironically, we have been taught many a time to misplace our anger on a softer target in a practical class, so to speak, in our home laboratory during formative period of our childhood. Such social conditioning makes a few too headstrong to unlearn it later in the future.

Unfortunately, in the name of rearing a child, we unknowingly sow the seeds of hate in their mind. If a child gets hurt after colliding with, say a chair, s/he naturally starts crying. Indeed, crying is a natural mechanism to ease pain. If it’s a male child, we try hard to make him less sensitive to pain by reminding him that crying will burn a hole in his machismo.

Then, we vilify the chair which the child collided with. Thus, the child is never taught to question about the chair’s folly but to believe that inflicting pain on others is the best antidote to relieve his/her own pain.

Our childhood education promotes violence as a panacea. This makes such films become very popular, where the hero, in order to bring justice, takes the law in his own hand by promoting jungle raj where the might is the right. It is very easy to grow weeds of lynching in such a fertile ground of hate.