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△ 177｜The crime of creating conditions for suicide by others
The weather was hot and dry, and I didn’t know what to write for a long time, so I used the lazy method again—I went to see the last 500 days of writing, and what inspiration did I use on the 177th day—“Paracetamol”, which was written without Not its utility, but a story behind it left in my memory.
I remember that at that time, the whole country began to test the system of “purchasing sleeping pills with an ID card”, and the pharmacy upstairs happened to be a member of the policy that must abide by. At first, many people didn’t understand it. You also need to register an ID card to buy medicine. Obviously, many people want to have a peaceful sleep, but they have to be regarded as “maybe you are going to commit suicide when you buy sleeping pills”. And this pharmacy happens to be near a middle school. It is inevitable to meet those students in the second year of secondary school, who will choose to use “sleeping pills” to prove their existence and prove that they worked hard and bravely in the love of those youthful years. to be loved. Therefore, this pharmacy can only treat this matter more carefully, and often quarrels with customers because someone goes out to buy medicine and does not bring an ID card.
But everyone knows that there will come a day when people are used to this kind of arrangement, and there are indeed fewer and fewer cases of suicide through sleeping pills – or this is a sensitive period, if there is such a case of suicide, it must not be Not to be buried in history in order to comply with this policy was difficult to implement.
But one day there was an accident at the pharmacy – it is said that a student bought a lot of cold medicine here, saying that his family asked him to bring it back. Because it was not sleeping pills, the owner did not realize the seriousness of the matter. The student thought that the drowsy ingredient in the cold medicine might have the same effect as sleeping pills, so she used it to kill herself. At that time, it was also the first time that I learned that the “paracetamol” that was often used in my grandmother’s mouth turned out to be really. A drug, and its noun is composed of these words – the girl has suffered severe liver damage because of a large amount of paracetamol, causing such an accident. Naturally, the girl’s family will also find the owner of the drugstore to argue, but the owner They can only insist that the national policy is only to say that sleeping pills need a real-name system, there is no way to ask the girl for an ID card for cold medicine, and what she said is that the owner of the store can only think it is true.
——《∞》530｜Paracetamol
I didn’t finish that story, that pharmacy was forced to close because of that. But after all, it was not a violation of the “Sleeping Pill Strict Control Policy”, but he couldn’t find a corresponding crime, so he was detained for illegal sales, and then he was shut down like this. This ending is probably the “best”, at least, it completely blocks the girl’s parents from pursuing this matter – after all, they have no way to punish the “sinner” who caused the death of their daughter by any legal means. So morally, they are enough to make this person live with guilt for the rest of their lives – but will the person who opened the pharmacy really live with guilt because of this ending? He will probably hate the family even more, and even feel that the daughter “Dead in the right place” – of course, all of this is a dirty idea that I don’t think it’s big enough to watch the fun.
In order to avoid this “embarrassment” and “unable to punish the real sinner” from happening. I suggest that there should be an entirely new criminal law, the “crime of creating conditions for suicide by others”. After all, in China, “the dead are the greatest”, no matter what the dead did, he should not be criticized right or wrong, but those who ultimately contributed to the death of the dead should be the sinners – although there is a very Obvious logical error, but after all, “the dead are the greater”, so there must be a “sinner” to bear the sin.
The most common subject of “the crime of creating conditions for suicide by others” is generally “space”. For example, when a person commits suicide by jumping off a building in a school, people first think that there must be a “problem” in the school, because after all, there are many “unsolved mysteries” in the space where the suicide occurs – the camera that should record the truth most often at this time. Sudden failure. At least now that I see news of this type of campus suicide, I wouldn’t expect them to provide evidence of “surveillance video”, which must be in a damaged state by default. Since the “place” of the school is often reluctant to provide “surveillance video”, they should be convicted and considered to be the ultimate condition that contributed to the suicide of the person concerned.
Another situation where the “criminal creation of other people’s suicide conditions” is more applicable is the “clean-up” household chores. There are often suicide episodes in family relationships, and by extension, suicides also occur in emotional relationships. But how to determine “why” the client committed suicide, on the one hand, it does not meet the rule of “the dead is the greatest”, and on the other hand, the relatives themselves are not very good at finding the “sinner”, after all, there is a “filial piety culture” stuck there. Since it is not easy to convict and find sinners, it is better to use the law as the last means of “revenge” – to punish those sinners who should be condemned and held accountable according to moral requirements.
Of course, there are also some things that are not very easy to determine the “suicide condition creator”, for example:
If a person commits suicide by burning charcoal at home, who should be punished? sell carbon? If the parties use natural wood charcoal fire, who should be responsible for it – then punish Prometheus because he stole the holy fire and let humans have fire – but Prometheus is The role of Greek mythology is the foreign civilization – then we can rise to the level of “foreign forces caused the client to commit suicide” .
As long as we have a basis for inference, we will surely find the sinner responsible for us!
After the incident, every time I bought a cold medicine, I would think of the ingredients of the medicine – if some medicines were made earlier, more people’s lives might be saved, and some medicines were restricted earlier, and more people could be saved. What a wonderful and tragic paradox.
We are all waiting for a dose of our own, addicted and then restrained, saved or betrayed.
——《∞》530｜Paracetamol
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