Success at Samagam!

Disha was adjudged the Best Speaker in an Inter-School English Debate Competition organised under the aegis of CBSE Sahodaya Schools Complex, Indore.

She spoke against the motion:

“SOCIAL DEPRIVATION CAUSES CRIME”

The transcript of her debate:

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the architect of our constitution was haunted by caste discrimination and humiliation from the early years of his life. He was awarded prestigious scholarships and a doctorate from the University of Columbia, yet, faced social deprivation all his life. But he went on to become the first Law Minister of India and he undoubtedly had an iron-hand towards criminals.

Social deprivation does not have a direct relationship with the crimes committed. When we try and solve the mystery behind criminal minds we find that it isn’t social deprivation but the failure to realize one’s virtue; the failure of self- direction; the desire for a bed of roses which leads to a belief among potential bombers that 'my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak' and induces in thieves a never satiating craving for more and more.

In fact, according to Criminal Psychology, crime occurs because the criminal chooses it when he starts having a feeling of inadequacy or when he becomes extremely sensitive towards negative evaluation.

There are people like Dhirubhai Ambani and Oprah Winfrey, coming from the grassroots of poverty who have worked hard come rain or sunshine to become the epitomes of success. They wisely used their conscience to choose legitimacy over rebellious and undesirable thoughts.

“A Criminal Mind makes himself so !”

By nature he is irresponsible, impulsive, self- centred and lacks empathy. He tirelessly trudges into the fields of anger, frustration and the lust of more power. He is infested with greed leading to molestation, murder, burglary and theft to calm the ravenous self. He gets convinced to commit heinous crimes in the name of religion.

Social deprivation is but a euphemism for some who can’t tackle the frustration and are lazy enough to give infinite excuses not to modify the situations around them. 

With more power comes more greed. The infamous prisoners, be it Lalu Prasad Yadav or Harshad Mehta, didn’t lack power, money or respect. Then why didn’t they think twice before involving their grey matter in the fodder scam or in stock market crash? Doesn’t the very clique of concentration camps and genocide traillblazed by the highly educated Adolf Hitler ring a bell in your ears?

For the socially deprived, the cat comes out of the bag as they lack the resources to bribe the administration while the bracket of high earners successfully manage to evade taxes and disprove allegations against them! As a result, we find statistics indicating that the majority of the criminal population belongs to the uneducated poor!

Social deprivation is a veil that blinds the stringent laws while catching hold of criminals.