CRIME DOES NOT PAY. CRIME DOES PAY. – PART II.
…AND WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SAUDI ARABIA, JAPAN AND SINGAPURA. AND WHAT GREED HAS GOT TO DO WITH MOST OF THE CRIMES THAT ARE CREATED.
By Mansor Puteh
IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO GREED.
THIS IS THE TRAIT WHICH MANY PEOPLE HAVE AND MANY MALAYSIANS ARE NOT SHORT OF THAT.
ONE CAN BE VERY TEMPTED TO GO INTO THE WORLD OF CRIME EVEN WHEN HE IS HIGHLY EDUCATED, SO ONE THINKS THAT ONE CAN MAKE A CALCULATED RISK AND TO TRY TO BENEFIT FROM THAT WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT
Some succeed, but some fail.
Criminals and conmen prey on those who are vulnerable and straightforward who believe in everything they say, especially if it is a huge profit on a purchase of land that does not exist.
In many instances, the greedy persons will be tempted to get that profit, by spending a bit of money and being cheated in the process without double-checking on the background of the lawyers they are dealing with and the land they want to purchase on their behalf, to see if it exists.
But most of the petty and other serious crimes are committed by those who are not so well educated and who have greed in them. They also crave to get things that they could not afford.
And in Malaysia, who are those people who are in the world of crimes? They are people with similar traits that they have similar academic, social and cultural backgrounds with many are from the same type of schools.
When they drop out so early in such schools, they did not have many options to start their own life, so they drift to the world of crimes.
It will be a long while before we can find ourselves in a society and country which are free of crimes, however petty so much so that we can leave our belongings at public places and still be able to find them few hours or days later.
Saudi Arabia was such a place, and I have seen how the system there works. The other country is Japan, and I have also experienced personally how things are left on benches in their subway stations could be collected at the nearest stations.
And Singapura is not bad either. it is an island republic and it is small; so it can enclose itself nicely and keeping out of alien criminal activities with so few entry and exit points to worry about while the Malaysian borders are long and mostly deserted.
Surprisingly, these are a Muslim and two non-Muslim countries which are at the other end of the Asian continent.
Yet, Malaysia can never be half as good as them in many ways.
One imposes laws of Allah and the other, in the way they behave amongst themselves. Both create the best situations for their own countries.
Many countries which do not have similar beliefs suffer and as such their citizens tend to be less regimented to behave in the most human manner.
Still there are thefts and rapes committed in Japan, much to my surprise, as there also in Saudi Arabia. But these incidents are far in between.
Fortunately, for many, they learn very fast, and from the experiences of the others who had been punished for the crimes they had committed, for which they had managed to use them as a valuable lesson for them, so that they do not repeat them.
Society and civilization have not actually taught human beings to behave in the proper manner; free of greed, they still have to be bound by law to curb even the worse of the greedy so they do not want or dare to exploit it.
Sometimes even religious laws are not too stringent as the punishment meted is only felt in the Hereafter.
So no wonder, many prominent persons and even those whom we consider to be pious have been known to commit crimes, many of which have been exposed while the many others have been hidden. They think they can handle their lives in the Hereafter and escape the final persecution.
It’s only they who know what crimes they had committed, but their conscience has not told them to feel any tinge of regret. So they go along on with their lives keeping the secrets in their hearts.
Only so few of them have been exposed for abuse of power, corruption and even crimes, because they know how to hide their tracks. They know how to confuse their trackers so much so that they are often seen to be righteous persons whom they are not.
They are crooks and criminals who are allowed to roam the land free from any fears of persecution because they know the law and how to avoid from being charged or arrested.
They are shrewd and cunning. But deep inside them, they know that they are sick.
I read the papers and watch on television on the many people who commit crimes which are so repetitive in nature like I am watching a daytime soap opera which is being repeated again and again. The only differences are that they involve different characters, locations and situations. But they are still basically using the same plot.
It is indeed such a pitiful sight seeing able men and women committing crimes just because they are too lazy to earn their keep so that they are able to purchase all the things that they had tried to pinch from the others who had found it necessary to educate themselves so that they become people who have virtues.
Yet, they are often seen as potential victims of those who do not share similar sentiments, who want to go about the easiest way of becoming criminals or petty thieves without care for retribution for the Higher Being or the relevant laws which had been in place by our ancestors and fathers of the land and even by our religions.
Seeing something in the media which is repetitive is quite boring. But this is life. Some people will never learn from the mistakes of the others. They do not seem to realize that what they want to do is something that has been done many times before and there were all dealt with expeditiously.
Some of the crimes take a longer time to settle, but they are still done finally, regardless of whether they were done so by the laws of man or later still by the Higher Being in the Hereafter – if this matters to them.
By Mansor Puteh
IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO GREED.
THIS IS THE TRAIT WHICH MANY PEOPLE HAVE AND MANY MALAYSIANS ARE NOT SHORT OF THAT.
ONE CAN BE VERY TEMPTED TO GO INTO THE WORLD OF CRIME EVEN WHEN HE IS HIGHLY EDUCATED, SO ONE THINKS THAT ONE CAN MAKE A CALCULATED RISK AND TO TRY TO BENEFIT FROM THAT WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT
Some succeed, but some fail.
Criminals and conmen prey on those who are vulnerable and straightforward who believe in everything they say, especially if it is a huge profit on a purchase of land that does not exist.
In many instances, the greedy persons will be tempted to get that profit, by spending a bit of money and being cheated in the process without double-checking on the background of the lawyers they are dealing with and the land they want to purchase on their behalf, to see if it exists.
But most of the petty and other serious crimes are committed by those who are not so well educated and who have greed in them. They also crave to get things that they could not afford.
And in Malaysia, who are those people who are in the world of crimes? They are people with similar traits that they have similar academic, social and cultural backgrounds with many are from the same type of schools.
When they drop out so early in such schools, they did not have many options to start their own life, so they drift to the world of crimes.
It will be a long while before we can find ourselves in a society and country which are free of crimes, however petty so much so that we can leave our belongings at public places and still be able to find them few hours or days later.
Saudi Arabia was such a place, and I have seen how the system there works. The other country is Japan, and I have also experienced personally how things are left on benches in their subway stations could be collected at the nearest stations.
And Singapura is not bad either. it is an island republic and it is small; so it can enclose itself nicely and keeping out of alien criminal activities with so few entry and exit points to worry about while the Malaysian borders are long and mostly deserted.
Surprisingly, these are a Muslim and two non-Muslim countries which are at the other end of the Asian continent.
Yet, Malaysia can never be half as good as them in many ways.
One imposes laws of Allah and the other, in the way they behave amongst themselves. Both create the best situations for their own countries.
Many countries which do not have similar beliefs suffer and as such their citizens tend to be less regimented to behave in the most human manner.
Still there are thefts and rapes committed in Japan, much to my surprise, as there also in Saudi Arabia. But these incidents are far in between.
Fortunately, for many, they learn very fast, and from the experiences of the others who had been punished for the crimes they had committed, for which they had managed to use them as a valuable lesson for them, so that they do not repeat them.
Society and civilization have not actually taught human beings to behave in the proper manner; free of greed, they still have to be bound by law to curb even the worse of the greedy so they do not want or dare to exploit it.
Sometimes even religious laws are not too stringent as the punishment meted is only felt in the Hereafter.
So no wonder, many prominent persons and even those whom we consider to be pious have been known to commit crimes, many of which have been exposed while the many others have been hidden. They think they can handle their lives in the Hereafter and escape the final persecution.
It’s only they who know what crimes they had committed, but their conscience has not told them to feel any tinge of regret. So they go along on with their lives keeping the secrets in their hearts.
Only so few of them have been exposed for abuse of power, corruption and even crimes, because they know how to hide their tracks. They know how to confuse their trackers so much so that they are often seen to be righteous persons whom they are not.
They are crooks and criminals who are allowed to roam the land free from any fears of persecution because they know the law and how to avoid from being charged or arrested.
They are shrewd and cunning. But deep inside them, they know that they are sick.
I read the papers and watch on television on the many people who commit crimes which are so repetitive in nature like I am watching a daytime soap opera which is being repeated again and again. The only differences are that they involve different characters, locations and situations. But they are still basically using the same plot.
It is indeed such a pitiful sight seeing able men and women committing crimes just because they are too lazy to earn their keep so that they are able to purchase all the things that they had tried to pinch from the others who had found it necessary to educate themselves so that they become people who have virtues.
Yet, they are often seen as potential victims of those who do not share similar sentiments, who want to go about the easiest way of becoming criminals or petty thieves without care for retribution for the Higher Being or the relevant laws which had been in place by our ancestors and fathers of the land and even by our religions.
Seeing something in the media which is repetitive is quite boring. But this is life. Some people will never learn from the mistakes of the others. They do not seem to realize that what they want to do is something that has been done many times before and there were all dealt with expeditiously.
Some of the crimes take a longer time to settle, but they are still done finally, regardless of whether they were done so by the laws of man or later still by the Higher Being in the Hereafter – if this matters to them.
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