Love, Lust and Humanity...

Yes, weird to start a 2008 post with, but then I don't write everyday do I? (Even though I vehemently, fervently wish that I did). So I came across this, small clip on Reuters, where a 19 year old woman had filmed the murder of her married lover by her boyfriend. And then I leaned back in my chair and thought what could have gone in the head of the three involved. What could have been going on in those Neuro synapses while they were at it.

The victim who had been chopped into little pieces, obviously would have been dead by the time the hacking started. So we can rule out his mind theatrics. Unless we believe that the brain is alive for sometime after the death, we can assume he must be thinking of the family he was leaving behind, and for the rut he had gotten into for Coelho's 11 minutes of fun. A victim of Lust.

The boyfriend, must have been acting on "Love". The victim was a 39 year old "lover" of the woman, who had met her when she was being a hostess at a night club. I can ascribe, jealousy and anger for the man, who had managed to gain access to "his" girl. And anger is a pure emotion, when it erupts as rage it can do the undoable.

But what about the girl? The 19 year old woman from a struggling family in Beijing was a college student, who must have been working on the side to make the ends meet (no pun intended here). But what drover her into the killing? Perhaps the victim never told her about his wife and family, but then jealousy could not have been the motive of the murder. She already had a boyfriend, so that implies she was not looking for a full commitment from the man. Her boyfriend was an accomplice to the crime, which also underlines that she might have discussed the victim with him. So what was it that drove her to it? And the most interesting part is why did she film it all? Did she want to watch it later? Was she not repulsed by the entire idea being carried out?

I do not have these answers. I have juxtapositions and assumptions but no firm explanation that succeeds in getting a full approval from me. But more than that I shudder at the ease with which they must have carried out the carving. The film acts as a pointer to how coldbloodedly they executed the entire thing. I have a fictitious thought tapping in my head, that perhaps this was not the first time they were doing this. That perhaps on further investigation the Police might find that they have several video tapes of earlier killings. This news might result in some files in the Missing Department of Police closing for good, and some families grieving on the dead hope that was keeping them alive. You know thoughts that come under the folder of sensationalism, because these days anything like this is possible.

And then Scorpions go on their Humanity Hour tour.