JUNE 19 — What makes a person do something absolutely crazy?
There's compassion, like someone who cannot swim jumping into a freezing lake to save a child from drowning[1].
There's monetary reward, like stealing from the bank you work in so that you can buy exotic cars for you and your girlfriend — and then appear in a TV show flaunting your possessions[2].
There's principles and honour, like jumping out of a trench first so that you can show your men that you will not jeopardise their lives in the war without you leading the way[3].
There's faith misguided, like strapping a dirty bomb to your body, walking over to a very populated area and blowing yourself up[4].
There's desire, like kidnapping a woman you are besotted with, bludgeoning her into submission then rogering her until she dies before doing her dead body again for good measure[5].
There's remorse, like standing outside your wife's work-place every day holding a rose begging her forgiveness after she found out that you had been cheating on her (three times) and kicked you out of the house[6].
There are many other reasons, and all of them would include a kind of psychosis on the part of the actor. In other words, to do something crazy, you must be a little, if not a lot, crazy first. And yes, even compassionate crazy is still crazy.
Now, consider this.
A man claimed to have been anally-penetrated several times. After having his anus stretched these several times, he came to the conclusion that he was an involuntary partner in the act, and was therefore stabbed by a blunt (and, one assumes, reasonably hard) instrument against his will. He was, in other words, forcefully sodomised. Raped.
He then went on to make a police report of the incidents, before presenting himself at a private hospital for inspection. The doctor who examined him found no evidence of tearing or any other wound consistent with a puckered orifice on the receiving end of an encounter with an erect appendage (or indeed with any other elongated, reasonably hard, object). Since the examining doctor confessed to not being an expert in such encounters, he was not absolutely conclusive.
The man then went to a government hospital, where he was again checked for signs of forced aggravation in the general area known in medical circles as the bunghole. In a report allegedly endorsed by three specialists, the hospital also admitted to finding no signs.
Unrelenting, the man then went to a place of worship, to swear in the name of God, with one hand on the Holy Book, that he was indeed violated, and shamed. Physically and mentally wounded, in fact, by the abuse visited upon his rectum.
And in spite of the medical examination reports he remains adamant that he had been, not to put too fine a word to it, buggered.
He was even adamant and (one presumes) distraught enough to have brought the matter up with the deputy prime minister of the time. Mainly because the alleged instrument of phallic indecency was attached to a previous deputy prime minister.
Now, what do you call that kind of crazy?
Politics.
Endnotes:
[1] Examples of this and its like are numerous.
[2] This actually happened in Malaysia. Two words: Aman Shah. He stole several millions from Hock Hua Bank, and bought a Ferrari and possibly a Lamborghini, after which he went on a TV show featuring owners of exotic cars. I cannot, however, remember exactly when this happened.
[3] For the British, trench warfare in the First World War saw, in proportion, a higher number of upper-class men dying that those from the lower classes. This was because the officer ranks were almost always from the upper-class. Since the British at the time believe in leading from the front, the officers would always leave the trench first when leading a charge towards the enemy lines. Resulting in them getting shot, blown or otherwise killed first. It would not have been cricket, otherwise.
[4] A dirty bomb example is explosives wrapped with shards of glass, nails, screws, and other small sharp objects which would be flung all over the place when the bomb explodes so as to maximise the damage and kill rate. And for that, the exploder believes that he will ascend to heaven, fornicate with 72 virgins, and drink a lot of wine. Some people can manage the two without having to ascend very high. Some effort without the use of explosives, however, would be needed.
[5] Yes, this has happened. It's rape. And no, it's not meant to be funny.
[6] And one can only assume that the wife had finally cottoned on to the old adage that once might be an accident, twice might be a mistake, but thrice is just not knowing that it's better to just keep the one-eyed snake inside your underpants. Hope does not always triumph over experience.
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