While the comments of the rapist as documented in “India’s Daughter” are appalling, even more appalling are the comments of the two lawyers who are representing the rapists. Does education really enlighten? Apparently not. Who is to say that in the corridors of power & pelf we do not have hundreds and thousands who under the veneer that education and/or affluence provides have views that are as ludicrous and appalling as these rapists and their lawyers. And I do not think this a particular Indian problem. It exists, I believe, in all societies because somehow power in human societies seems to flow, like water, to those of us who have baser instincts. Can anything change that? Perhaps we will have to wait for the evolution of a higher species than us humans.
