Thakar Singh

How about this guy, huh? I really have had to think about the setting from which the people we are reading about come from to get a better understanding of why they would do some of the things they do. I wondered if Thakar thought he was really doing something normal, or something that isn't that bad. Did he think because of his "holy" status that he could do whatever entered his mind, because he was good? This is like the question of if something is good because God says so or does God say so because it is good. Were the atrocities he was doing good to him because he wanted to do them, and he being the enlightened figurehead means they must be good? I also wonder if he had grown up in a similar setting. Many people who act in these ways have been influenced by their parents, culture, and ambient whom have shown the same actions and attitudes.

But with that being said, he was aware that what he was doing is wrong. Living here in Peru I have seen and spoken with many people who say that it is normal for a man to hit his wife. Their fathers did it, their grandparents did it, and their neighbors do it. Almost all have been Peruvians native to the mountain areas around Puno. Their culture has kind of taken that stance. But when you begin to talk to them about it, really get into the details of who is human and how we should treat each other, speaking to them about how they hated seeing their mother being beaten when they were children, they begin to understand and they can't even look you in the eyes. Their is something in us all when we really begin to evaluate our thoughts and when we learn from others, we know that this is wrong. We know that Thakar Singh has committed a wrong and he knows it as well. He had international attention, his followers were aware of it (they reported him), therefore he was also in the same ambient and culture as them who knew it to be wrong. I was not able to hear or read what happened to Thakar Singh in the end, but I hope that justice was done and he received the punishment for his crimes.