Mon Journal

Human’s Most Dangerous Enemies

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Just recently Indonesian shocked with a news of fatal traffic accident happened in Jakarta on Sunday afternoon. A woman aged 29 hit 12 pedestrians with the car she was driving on, which 9 of them died eventually on the site. Loon! Yeah, that was the first expression come out of me when heard about the news. How come such thing happened during a peaceful Sunday afternoon when everybody was in the middle of their long weekend holiday or in preparation of the Lunar New Year. 

What shocked the people more is the fact of how the subject of this case was under drugs and alcohol. She, whose name is Apriani, had just had a party on Saturday night where she suspected to be on a tremendous ‘high’ with cocaine, narcotics, and alcohol. With such booze, plus the fact that she had not even slept since the party, on Sunday morning Apriani drove the minibus she had borrowed previously, got it on a fast 100 km/h track, and hit those pedestrians. Such an accident, which means it was not intentionally. Or, was it really not intended ? Well, despite all the fact that the case was a pure accident with no motive, the background in which the alleged driver had driven the minibus under booze, fast, and recklessly, it was all intended enough for me to develop such case. 

While the news still has its fame on Indonesia’s trending topic, another shocking news aired on Metro TV, just one day after the shocking car accident. A pregnant women in Semarang - Central Java was kidnapped, and forced to deliver her baby. What’s next ? After the baby got delivered, the previously pregnant women only got one chance to breastfeed her baby before she finally dumped off by the group who kidnapped her in Semarang central district - without her baby. Well, after Apriani’s case, hearing this news only forced me to take a deep breath, much deeper than I previously did when I heard a shocking news. And the next thing I did was, give thank to God that I’m still alive and has not become the victim of other people’s craziness.

Yes. Other people’s ~ which include ourselves in the perspective of others.

Maybe these two newsmaker is only a glimpse out of many crazy things people did to others : slaughtering, war, trafficking, harmful land clearing, etc. But the fact that these two case happened in such an ongoing phase for national news consumption, without any break for people to take a deep breath and having a nice - non violent - life, has made me realize how dangerous we are to others. 

Human is a social living thing, homo socius. This condition enlight the fact that every single human on this planet cannot living by themselves, theoretically. Even someone like Chuck Noland on Cast Away had many people in his life before he stranded away on a Pacific Island, yet needs another people to support his living after years of isolation. But in every interaction we make with others under our social ‘thing’, we also have every potential to harm the others at the very fatal risk. We have every resource to act as another’s nightmare and provide the most dangerous thing for it. 

With or without any bad intention a person have, they would eventually have a logic to build a self defense and self offense to harm its counterparts. In combined with emotion, motives, and bad intentions, these all become such a great weaponry. Silence but deathly. It may unable to do a mass holoaust in a single second time, but ommitting the time frame it may do an annihilation on a right direction, on purpose, and effective. That what all the executive forces - agents and spies in this world have shown to the reality. And with the facet of previously discussed two newsmaker : a baby - pregnant mother kidnapper and a reckless under booze driver, have intrigued me that the danger of what others may bring to us can be anywhere and at any time. We may no longer assume at a safe place with others surrounding us. This is the condition where human has become a major risk for others, of many possible harmful thing to occur.

Homo Homini Lupus. 

Ciao!