So I call them, murderers. Irresponsible individuals, sometimes drunk, confused, crossed, uneducated, unaware of their surroundings and lack of minimum education to get behind the wheel of a car, bus, taxi, truck, tractor-trailer, fleet, whatever. Perhaps someone who meets one or more of these features and also causes a fatal accident, leaving, do not you call me a murderer?
with varying degrees of guilt, with the justification that is, if all of their own irresponsibility, however small, a person simply should not return to play the pedals or steering wheel of a car. Or even a bicycle for the good of society. The drivers, of all denominations, without discrimination, it seems that have already been taken as a sport drive a vehicle as the worst wild traverse between every possible space, almost to scratch by the way, ignore the signs transit, pedestrians, ambulances, others also engage in countless atrocities , there is no other name-for decent drivers who take them for inept, or "low living."
Deaths like this are daily bread in Bogota, where a single life and pain should be worth as much as that of any number of them. But in this society of irrational patterns, where the massacres until we became something that affects us, we simply can not expect the bulk of the people's awareness of how important it is to care for human life, in an area as sensitive as are process of our city and in general, our country.
Many people ended up sounding like a stale speech, a cliché, a scolding or nagging, Antanas Mockus's insistence on proclaiming that "life is sacred," as one of the phrases he used in his presidential campaign. But he did not motivated only by it, nor was his campaign as recently as this sentence, but had done something similar with her when she ordered the Carrot Act during his first term as mayor and also had personal reasons. A close friend had died, not because of some irresponsible driver, but the ongoing violence and rampant in the 80's. Total, at the last two things are forging the same kind of person. The one that takes lives. And in case it prompts me with anger and pain to write this brief reflection, many men and women driving around, rolling on the streets and country roads, removal of opportunity for one person or many, of living. And the classic: Justice has not been and will be hard on them. And they show countless accidents that occur daily across the country. For the sample of a button, or good two. In the case a couple of videos of recent incidents where five people were killed. Which expression so peculiar, right? "Losing" life, like who won cause in some sense.
What should we do then in this country, so do not murderers loose after having ascertained that actually are killers (to the extent that is) and a latent threat to society? Perhaps stiffer penalties, to change the law, right? My opinion is that this is far from instantaneous and magically solve the issue. Mockus did something intangible but totally useful in Bogota society to middle of the last decade of last century. That is what, in my opinion, start a genuine process of change. It is useless to toughen penalties for these murderers on wheels, and do not speak of gunmen on a motorcycle, "if in any case, if so, the streets would be filled even more than irresponsible and drunk with pass in hand making all sorts of violations and crimes, which often come to naught.
Instead, it would be quite useful to the city and the companies that manage public transport (private, ironically), have mechanisms in education, at least graduated from high school to their employees, as is trying to achieve recently in Bogotá. At the same time promote the campaign, as much as possible, education, responsibility and culture in the way, for drivers, as well as awareness to the general public. In our former mayor called him a clown when he wanted to use cards teaching and pampering in the streets to culturizar (not civilize it is paradox here), a city full of people driving demonized and bystanders who did not know almost all the basic rules to get around.
The downside is that, like everything else in the country of the Sacred Heart, we forgot and we gradually returning to the same. That really is a particularity difficult to remove the Colombian in his being, the collective amnesia. Then, if we are not the least intention of promoting a culture change campaigns in favor of unconsciousness and insensitivity exorcise Colombia, if not strengthened and we use from time to time our memory, individual and collective continue in this cycle of impunity and quasi-psychotic with pass.
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