it was merely a stare...

Going by what came out in the papers today, the youths of today are pretty scary. A groups of youths hacked another youth to death just because he stared. Is a stare worth a person's life? Does a stare warrant a death sentence? I honestly cannot phantom what they could have thought. It wasn't even an open challenge to a fight. It was merely a stare. It might not even be a stare. It might just have been an extended look.

One wonders what these youths have been taught in school. Or what these youths have not been taught in school. The violent tendencies of youths these days are worrying. They think they can solve everything with their fists. If everything could easily be solved with their fists, the world would be much simpler. The world population would be much less as well.

I think Gandhi said it best, "An eye for an eye will only leave the world blind." Or in this case, a good long look cost a youth his life.

Perhaps too many youths grow up thinking that they are somehow protected or immune to the laws of the land. They don't take enough responsibility for their own actions. This has to change.