Emily Baxter: We Are All Criminals

One is not a criminal until caught. Yes, we all have committed crime, knowingly or unknowingly, however small it may be. We all are judgemental. We point our index finger to all and sundry ignoring and without taking care of those three pointing towards own-self. Almost all of us are sympathetic but very few empathetic. All convicted do not live with the stigma and others should not remind one about one's conviction. To hire or not to hire is an individual's choice. We Indians are witness to several other types of discrimination which are not in developed countries and hence one more does not matter much. Often the laws are evolved which are contradictory to basic fundamental nature and those laws get violated easily and in-advertantly as some will always be out of the majority or average group. To make laws exhaustive and inclusive will mean no laws at all to be legislated which is not possible nor advisable. Dilemma. Hence crime will continue and will reduce only if poverty is reduce... [View Full Comment]