I recently started exploring a rather alarming phenomenon, which was there all along but has very recently been highlighted to me. Let's say a person has been attacked by members of a particular community. The normal reaction I would have expected is general condemnation of the attack even from the members of the same community. However it is actually being justified and further threats are being given, members of that community are lamenting that the murder attempt wasn't successful and life-threats and legal threats are being given to the victim. What is wrong with this picture? I explored in more details with some members of the community and came with a shocking realization.

The general sentiment was that the murder attempt was justified because the victim has decided to speak against the community (to which she initially belonged by birth). Her crime was exercising her freedom of expression and her feminism!

There is a serious problem with such mindset and actions. Say for example someone is against the males or even against me. Does that give me the right to kill her? Surely not! Shouldn't the same logic be applicable to a community? And then let's look at the bigger picture.

Let's say members of that community (let's name them A for the sake of this discussion) are intolerant towards members of other communities (say B and C). Does that give the members of the other communities, following the warped logic of A, the right to kill members of community A?

If we as a humanity follow this extremely dangerous logic then humanity will soon cease to exist in every way. We wouldn't need Malthusian catastrophe to check population. The remaining few will be truly devoid of any humanity.

The right to live is a fundamental right. Closely along it comes the right to speech & expression. Any civilized society should not only honor the right to live but also the right to speech & expression. However for the sake of argument let's say if someone abuses the right to speech & expression, that doesn't give others the right to end his life. That was done during the dark ages of Europe and during the British rule in India (Jallianwala Bagh massacre for example). However that isn't a mark of a civilized society. It is barbarism, plain and simple. Any goverment that supports such action by any community (A, B or C) isn't fit to rule either.