12-29-2006, 07:38 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-utepian+Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM-->QUOTE(utepian @ Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->While you are precise on why the family was targetted, why are you ignoring the qualitative nature of the crime? The more important fact that the male of the family was left alone after witnessing the crime.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Because <b><i>the qualitative nature of the crime is merely your interpretation of it</i></b>. There are the reported facts, then there are the things that may be inferred by common sense, and then there is our broad-brush interpretation of these facts that must be carefully ignored to understand the true story.
Also, the male member of the family was not "left alone". He was present but invisible to the killers initially, but fled from the scene later. If they had found him, I suspect they would have killed him too.
<!--QuoteBegin-utepian+Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM-->QUOTE(utepian @ Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I sense a great deal of intransigence from members on the board to call it a caste related crime. There is call for technical details, there is a sense that I somehow am proposing something preposterous by calling it a caste related crime. Why is it difficult to think that some arrogant landlords were completely outraged by a lower caste family owning land, intimidating them at first and when that did not work hacking them in such a way that they and their cohorts will remember for generations!
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These "arrogant landlords", do you have any evidence that they were anything more than small farmers?
Because <b><i>the qualitative nature of the crime is merely your interpretation of it</i></b>. There are the reported facts, then there are the things that may be inferred by common sense, and then there is our broad-brush interpretation of these facts that must be carefully ignored to understand the true story.
Also, the male member of the family was not "left alone". He was present but invisible to the killers initially, but fled from the scene later. If they had found him, I suspect they would have killed him too.
<!--QuoteBegin-utepian+Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM-->QUOTE(utepian @ Dec 30 2006, 12:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I sense a great deal of intransigence from members on the board to call it a caste related crime. There is call for technical details, there is a sense that I somehow am proposing something preposterous by calling it a caste related crime. Why is it difficult to think that some arrogant landlords were completely outraged by a lower caste family owning land, intimidating them at first and when that did not work hacking them in such a way that they and their cohorts will remember for generations!
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These "arrogant landlords", do you have any evidence that they were anything more than small farmers?