Another senseless death

By the power of six-degrees, it turns out that Sonia Teh, mother of the deceased Kang Fong Heng, is my line dance teammate's friend's friend. The same way that I'm connected to Avril Lavigne via my brother's friend's sister's friend who is Avril's cousin. And that Sarah Marbeck who was involved in that David Beckham scandal, is the daughter of my friend's friend's boss. And that Noritta girl who was murdered lives in the next condo block to another of my teammates. No, I don't know the main people in question, but that's the beauty of six-degrees; I'm merely connected to them.

Six-degrees aside, it distresses me the way that human life is treated nowadays. We have progressed so far in technology, living now in what we call civilization, and yet we can still submit to the animal instincts that sticks around like cockroaches even after millions of years of evolution.

I know many people would say, "Hey, he did start it by confronting it." Yes, he should have walked away. Yes, he shouldn't have tried to confront 10-15 men. But no, he did not deserve it. No one deserves to be beaten to pulp, not for such a petty argument, much less be beaten to death. With 3 men from another car who are not even involved in the confrontation in the first place joining in!

I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. And yet there seems to be a lot of pretty stupid reasons flying around. Should people die merely for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? A innocent schoolteacher was shot and died merely because she happened to be in the same area as a gun-toting lunatic. A lady, who was a good mother and wife, went into a coma and never woke up when her head smashed into the kerb while her bag was being pulled by a snatch thief (incidentally, I had a friend who had been at that very place a mere 15 minutes before).

So what are these deaths supposed to represent? I'm still trying to figure that one out. A death caused by a snatch thief leads to.... an awareness campaign of snatch thieves? Hello???? It takes a DEATH to realise that? Shouldn't we have been trying to stem this crime ages ago? It was rampant then, as it is rampant now. It was a crime then, still a crime now. So why wait until someone dies for it?

I still haven't figured out the other deaths that have been filling the newspapers lately. Well... the beheading of the hostages were really very upsetting, but at least there was a "reason", even if I disagree wholeheartedly with such a "reason".

Maybe it's a cycle. Maybe it's nature's way of dealing with the human overpopulation. With an increase in the types of endangered species and declining numbers of all other animals, there aren't enough natural predators to go around, so let's have that species wipe each other out. Who knows, that would enable the Dodo bird to make a comeback.

That would mean there's no need for Armageddon. We just need a World War III.