What is it really? ?

It is not with revulsion that I read and watched all the hype about the rape and death of the victim. It is with all engrossing pity ... towards the society myself included.What we have seen is not just rape, though rape is the most visible aspect of the entire process of value degradation. We should condemn not the act but the value or valuelessness behind it. Rape is a transactional manifestation of the psychological rut we fell into. Rape, child abuse, disrespect to the elderly, humiliating the downtrodden etc are just symptoms. One can create laws to protect each of these segments but it is tantamount to dishing out remedy to the symptom rather than the cause of the disease. It is not blasphemic to state that the act is not reprehensible but the thought is. How many of us can claim that we are not corrupt thoughtwise. Men and women both confide in their hangout friends about their fascination with species of the other gender. So is the thought right and the act wrong? Act is a result of the context and other influences. So is the context the villain and the person innocent? Gandhiji lambasted himself while sitting in a whorehouse for the thought of approaching a whore though he unashamedly refused sex and cursed himself for long.</p>
<p dir=ltr>The only concern upto this point is not about avoiding the context or circumstances or catalysts to do the wrong thing. Anyway what is wrong.. any act of unkindness is a result of lack of empathy. A serial rapist has comprehended the undiluted fear and revulsion of his minor victim as one of tacit invitation to have sex.
One needs soul,  the primary device for the fundamental appreciation of empathy. The heart to understand another mind that overpowers one's own cravings... the eye to see the feelings... the eye to see beyond self.
It is time to bring on empathy.... there is a crying need to re discover humanity, time to see the soul of things..