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The Blame Game

People always blame the law, lawyers and the judges . This is a shame in today’s day and age considering that most people are born prudent enough to judge right from wrong. Recently I read an article in Times of India about a 16 year old girl who killed herself because she got into social networking so as to make friends which went terribly wrong when she got sexually involved with one of her internet friends. Who, as anybody can guess took advantage of her and she decided to end her life. The article blames the law for being flimsy. Let’s go back a few decades when mothers used to warn their children about talking to strangers and divulging information. How different is it today? Fine, the internet exposes us to more people but that’s a risk we take up on ourselves. But does that mean we ought not to be cautious as to whom we talk to and what we talk about? So when one is on one of these networks one can use their god given brains and exercise caution. But if people are on the ne...