It's been a while since I last wrote here. It's not that I didn't have anything to write about but simply that I didn't have time to do so. I still don't have much time, since we came back from holidays I spend my time cooking, reading and enjoying every minute I have. But there I am again in need of a friend.
I'm reading a very interesting cycle, that I have enjoyed in the past already, the blue bicycle by Regine Deforges. Its subject is the world war two and the book I'm currently reading is the one that disrupt me the most. (for those who know the cycle it's the third book). It goes about the end of the war and the way the French people treated the ones that collaborated or supposedly helped the Germans during the war. The crimes the Gestapo and the French people helping them have done were awful undoubtfully but the way those "free" French treated them don't seem any better to me. What I don’t understand is why people so upset about what those people did, ended up acting exactly the same way?
My Husband says I'm too naive and that this is the way people are. But, how can someone rightfully condemn another for doing something by doing exactly the same thing to that person? Not only at war but every day. Isn't that the reason we have codes and justice? to make sure that people that didn't behave well pay for what they did? It definitely is not the same and the system is far from being perfect, but would it really be ok to take justice into your own hands? Sath does think it is, I don’t think he would think long to fight back if ever someone attacked him, which I would understand, but if there was another option wouldn’t it be better to take it? I could understand that you protect yourself, but would it be ok afterwards to take justice into your own hand instead of going to the Authorities? And then, how long should we condemn people? Don’t they deserve a real second chance if they truly show they want one? Of course there are some people that show no remorse but it isn’t the majority, is it?
However, this leads to a second question: can everything be excused? is there a second chance for everything? Would people continue to behave according to morale if there were no consequences to their behavior? Isn’t that also why so many people collaborated with the Germans, thinking that no one would never know and they could just do whatever they wanted? But where is the limit? My mother often says that if she could she would kill the man that rapped and sequestrated those 4 little girls in Belgium. I can’t agree with her but I can’t say that I would’t agree if it had happen to someone in my Family. After watching the movie Trust (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1529572/) my Husband and I completely disagreed on the father’s actions. He said he would have behaved exactly the same way, that it is a father’s duty to protect its family and that he had to chase and fight back. I truly believe that there are other ways to react, first because his daughter needed him, and then because taking a life for a life wouldn’t serve anything. He would be dead, but how many are there to take his place? I truly believe that the way the parents of the girls in Belgium reacted was right. They build an association, one of the biggest at this time in Belgium and Europe, to help find missing children and to fight for children rights.
As my step father often says "we are always keener with ourselves than with the others". Maybe that just sums it up... I don't know, I honestly feel lost thinking that people can talk about justice and honesty and merit but confronted to “hardness” they throw it all away and act just like the people they condemn. I want to believe in second chances, I do believe that even in the worse person there can be some light. Does that make me naïve? Maybe, but is it wrong? I hope not because I definitely don’t want this part of myself to disappear.
What ae your thoughts on these subjects? Have you seen the movie Trust? what did you think about it?
