Back in college, one of the minors we were forcibly tasked to attend twice a week for one and a half hours was Philosophy, focusing on the philosophical enterprise and how it affected a person’s discipline of questioning, liberation and personhood. In all honesty, the only topic that got me listening to this class was tallying the number of times that my professor would utter the word “basically”. Mind you the record count of my Prof’s habit got as high as 15-times in one class (based on the tally I kept in my college notebooks), meaning there’s a sudden urge every six minutes to just say “basically” – kinda freaky huh?
Anyway, I got to thinking about guilt and crimes with how exclusively intertwined they are with each other, which leads me to an article written not so long ago about pre-dictions versus the actual crime. TheMinority Report featured pre-cogs referring to the ability to acquire knowledge beforehand. The masquerading irony and contradiction of a crime-free world when in fact the system itself is the crime. The so-called convicts in the film are all guilty of a common crime, they had “thought” of committing a crime but the reality is these are merely thoughts and their actions should supposedly be the justification of the crime.
Oh give it a rest, I’m not being cynical! Didn’t we all go through a phase during our younger years when we just wanted to break the neck of our sister? Ha-ha..but seriously, nobody is entitled to accuse a criminal until proven guilty, not until the crucial facts were carefully scrutinized.
People’s accusations (at some point) no matter how shallow and purely fabricated predates the final conclusion but lets face it, each version of accusation just keeps getting bigger and collectively irrelevant as it continues to spread. Sometimes accusations could sound so convincing you start to doubt yourself; so powerful that it could steer an innocent person into a path of fulfilling the allegations. Reminiscing one of our discussions in class, it dawned on me that freedom only takes place when we do something exceptional from what the expectations of people have from us. The ability to think before taking actions and doing the right act rather than the reaction expected from you.
Oh well what I’m trying to say is without the slightest hint of doubt, I’m absolutely practicing God’s greatest gift to womyn-kind…Freedom.
...definitely not being defensive here...haha
