If the sexualization of the culture is to be blamed for the Delhi gang- rape, then doesn’t that imply the criminals are not to be blamed?

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Question Question If the sexualization of the culture is to be blamed for the Delhi gang rape then doesn’t that automatically imply that the criminals are not to be blamed because they are simply they are simply conditioned by the culture Answer No, not at all there are two distinct causes which need to be separately understood and analyzed there is an immediate triggering cause and there is an underlying facilitating cause so the immediate triggering cause is the brutality of the people who are involved over here and the underlying triggering cause is the sexualization of the culture so to understand the relation between the two let’s consider an example from the Mahabharata when the Pandavas were sent to Varanavart to live in a house that was made of highly inflammable material lac at that time it was a conspiracy devised by the Kauravas Durada, Shakuni and others to burn the Pandavas to death and then they had assigned one of their aides Purochan to actually set the house on fire so of course by the Pandavas vigilance Vidura’s guidance and Krishna’s mercy, the Pandavas were saved but suppose somebody gets, suppose whoever was there in the house had got burnt then who is to be blamed for that certainly if Purochan had set the house on fire then he is the immediate triggering cause and he would have to be punished but along with that whoever had built that house to be made of inflammable material and had sent the Pandavas to stay over there and thus making, hatching a conspiracy to burn them that person also needs to be blamed that person also is responsible, the fact so that was the Kauravas over there so same way today the underlying cause that facilitates such brutality in the name of sex is the sexualization of our culture that is like building a extremely inflammable house of extremely inflammable material and then people who commit such violence, they are like Purochan who set the house on fire so now certainly those who have actually committed the crime need to be punished but along with that we also need to recognize that we are also creating a culture where such crimes are likely to happen more and more and we need to counter that and how do we counter that? By making sure that we don’t sexualize the culture so much it’s like saying that don’t build a house with such inflammable material so if in a city it was found that repeatedly houses were being set on fire and people were dying because of that then actually the city administration would want to have a more competent firefighting brigade which would have capacity to respond more promptly and effectively but that is only one side of the measure this is similar to what the protesters today are saying that we should have very good, we should have better police force which is competent and prompt in responding to such incidents of violence which provide better security and that is perfectly necessary but if a city were truly serious about avoiding incidents of arson, of burning then they would also make sure that the house is not built of inflammable material so that is what is the point of the article that we certainly need to punish criminals, we certainly need to have better security force but along with that why are we building the house to be of such inflammable material? Do we really need that? And why aren’t we looking at those who are actually building such a house for everyone to live in? So that is the whole commercial the industry that commercially exploits sex, so that is the primary point of this article that don’t look just at the immediate cause and don’t just look at the solution in terms of better police force but look at the fact that we have created an inflammable culture, that’s a sexualized culture so the focus of this article is that even if we have better police, even if we have stronger punishment but if we make the house of inflammable material, we will unfortunately have incidents of fire repeatedly and more and often more and more frequently and if we just look at the news on a regular basis we see so much sexual violence that is happening, that indicates that surely it’s a problem of police being not prompt and competent, it’s a problem of people being brutal but there is something more, we are building houses of inflammable material we are sexualizing our culture because of which it is making such things conducive, just as house of inflammable material makes things conducive so this article is by no means meant to shift the blame of the rapists as I have directly stated in the article also but it is to indicate that we are ourselves creating the situation for such incidents to occur and that we should not do, that’s the main thrust of