Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2007

The first case of digital public guilty verdict?

A teenage girl killed herself after being bullied online. A newspaper wrote about it, but didn't mention the names of the presumed guilty -adult- individuals. Later, anonyomoys people tracked these individuals down and published their details online.
This case -that was overlooked by many of us- can and should have profound implications for our justice system. Only a few of the questions that quickly come to mind are:
  1. What's the role of the courts when regular citizens take decisions that were previously relegated to the courts?
  2. What's the value of police investigations if they cannot find the people guilty of crimes but a "common internet jury" can?
  3. When should this public jury/investigation panel be called into action?
  4. How can anybody stop it from springing into action by itself and publishing online private individual's details?
  5. What if the information collected by this "public commitee" is wrong and the innocent are accused?
  6. How and when would the publicly accused know that their information is being posted online, and wht they're being accused of?
  7. When will the first death penalty be applied to a regular citizen by strangers on the streets and how could this be avoided?
And you thought crowdsourcing would never get to the justice and investigative professions...

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Monday, April 09, 2007

Objects are just objects. What is inside you?

Yes. It is beautiful, isn't it?
But it is also just an object.
There will always be a better car, a better phone, a better anything...always a better material object to struggle for.
There will always even be someone more attractive, stronger, faster, more efficient...than you.

But what it matters, is what's inside you. What's about your mental power? How developed is your sensibility? Your intuition? Your people skills? How well do you feel within yourself? Are you happy? That's all that really matters.

In the meantime, objects are nice, and human beauty is attractive to the eye to see. But this will also fade with time.
The only thing that will remain, is your essence...what you did...who you are...what you gave to the world.
And you are still on time to work on that.
Objects are just objects. Metal, plastic, rubber... joined together. Yes, they are nice.
But there are more important things to strive for...

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Life is built on bricks of persistence

You have a nice day. And you do what you have to do. You have a bad day. And you do what you have to do. You have your birthday. And you do what you have to do. You have holidays. And you do what you have to do...every day the same. Rubbing your face against failure, you carry on. You try to stay positive. And you do what you have to do. You doubt. But you do what you have to do...again.
But then...one day...after all that work an all those dissapointments...after all those hard times...after all those opportunities you missed for working so hard on "your thing"...after pursuing your ideals for so long...after studying, and working so hard, and trying, and trying, and trying yet again...then...one day...when you start thinking that it is not worth it...when your knees can't keep you in the battle anymore...when you think you will never reach your goal...then...

YOU DIIIIIEEEE!
And in that moment, you realize how much of a stupid you have been and how much easier life could have been. And you die feeling...pretty stupid. And a failure, of course.
You die like a stupid failure.
And life in the world carries on, without you. And everyone forget you. And people love other people. And people talk about other people (alive). And nobody cares about who you were...or what you did. Or why.
Because life is made out of bricks of persistence. And failure. And bets that may never pay off.
Great fun, isn't it? Such is reality. Such is life.
Don't tell this to your children...

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