Josef Fritzl
Josef Fritzl
I wouldn’t have told you this Mr. Chew, haven’t I read Ovid’s fascinating, challenging thoughts in his “The Metamorphosis” about loves of the gods and nymphs, between brother and sister, between mother and son, between father and daughter, of illegitimate love affairs.
Suppose it wasn’t against the rules, the law, public decency, suppose we’re so far that we aren’t shocked anymore that a father makes, could make love to his daughter, I don’t think he would have to take resort, measures to force, commit a crime by concealing, imprison, rape his daughter. They might live happy together. Besides, were he so free and has a lot of choices, he wouldn’t take his daughter.
We can’t force human nature to obey the laws, standards of decency, which are obsolete but we still enforce them. No religion, no constitution could ever bar, thwart human nature. Sure we could prohibit, imprison, punish, threaten a man with hell and even the death sentence but it does not still his desire after the “forbidden apple” nor prevent man to stray, do it again and again.
Would you blame, hate, accuse, curse your mother, a young inexperienced, unmarried girl, if she in desperation aborted you? She even might be prosecuted as committing a crime.
“No” I said.
Fritzl is just one of the so many victims of our civilization. Man’s not a thing, a computer, a robot, you know?
So spoke Pak Arif to me.
March 2009
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