Who has the leading role in crackdown on crimes?!

Generally, the official crime statistics in third world countries like Iran is unreliable because lots of them are unrecorded which, I believe, is the most serious problem we are facing nowadays. Victims of sexual crimes and young victims are mostly afraid of reporting and suing the perpetrator of crime.

The are two major root causes of crimes, financial problems, and lack of culture. Certainly, they are closely related to each other but I personally think that, lack of culture occupies a crucial role in raising crime problem. You can understand it easily if you just take a look at the rate of crimes which are committed in rich and uneducated families everyday. On the other hand, there are lots of poor families with cultural background, whose members have never been reported as a criminal in their lives, which both show that culture is more effective deterrent against crimes.

Financial problems such as inflation and unemployment are the other major causes of crimes in third world countries. Unemployed young people are likely to be tempted into a life of crime. When someone can not provide themselves with the essential facilities of living they would do anything to survive, even committing vicious crimes in cold blood.

Cross-sections of society such as -in order of priority- families, schools and universities, have a vital role in decreasing the crime level. These are the places that we educate every individual member of our society and given the fact that culture is something that formed in society, we can see how important it is.
Crime prevention program of the government which can be implemented by police and legal system is one of the factors that helps to reduce crime rates -particularly youth crimes- in Iran.

The media also plays a leading role in consciousness raising of society by warning them about the potential crimes around them. Especially in countries like Iran, where media is completely monopolized by the government, they can affect people easily.

Why do not we clone Humans?

by: Amir Payman Kashefi (shellman_10414@yahoo.com)

Humans are eager to have immortal life. This is by far the most important dream of them. Scientists have been working hard to find out a way which makes them capable of managing this old-dream.

If we are enthusiastic about knowing whether the genetic engineering and cloning are coming to help us or not, we should study it from many different angles.

The scientists are intensely ambitious with the idea of accomplishing this mission in spite of limitations and very serious disagreements. These objections are often come from politicians and religious figures. Some of the religious figures are strongly against cloning because they believe that humans are not allowed to play the God roles. Also they are not qualified for unnatural interference in human life.

Dr Richard Fid, who is for the idea of cloning, was supposed to establish a cloning center. But he was denied.

Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul the second were the other figures who were against cloning and believed it should be banned.

Dolly was the first lamb that was cloned by scientists with its mammal cells. Megan and Murag were the other lambs that scientists cloned them by their mothers embryo cells.

Unfortunately, they could not live more than three years while a natural sheep can be alive for 6 years.

People think that proved genes can help the scientists to eradicate terrible diseases. However the Dolly's death showed that it is not true.

Dolly, Megan and Murag died sooner than the scientists prediction, not because of illnesses, they died because their cells were not young. It means that scientists can use the cells and prove them only when they become adult. So it is clear that the cloned lambs could not be alive as long as their mothers.

Dr Colien Tudje is one of the greatest scientists who was completely against the cloning. Also he had predicted Dolly's impending death in Science magazine 2001 before Dolly died.

He strongly recommended not to clone the humans.

In the end we can conclude that genetic engineering and top of that cloning is one of the most controversial subjects that humans have in this era.

I would like a Brad Pitt face!

Are we going to live in a century of choosing our look like or our body type or our intelligence? Can we (or at least our parents!) order our feature before we were born?

Generally, I believe that everything is perfect in the way god has made them, and this world has an equilibrium which we might not understand but it doesn't mean that does not exist. And if we make a little tiny change in one part of the world there will be definitely a reaction in the other part. So, every change in nature has consequences. For example, nowadays we are suffering from global warming problem which is the consequence of our mistakes treating the nature in the industrial revolution. Most of the time because we don't know the long-term effects of our actions we consider it as if it is harmless while on no account could we put the next generation's life in danger.

Genetic engineering is one of the science that instinctively talk about change. The aim of this science is understanding the process of inheritance and try to make changes in order to improve humans life. The very controversial issue is “are we going in the right way or we are fighting the god's rules?”

With no doubt, genetic engineering can help us eradicate diseases such as cancer. Although these changes have been made by our previous mistakes, it would be a cure for all of our sufferings. But, on the other hand, genetic engineering might make human able to change something we shouldn't and only god knows what will happen if we do that. For example, just imagine a world in which every one has a same appearance or a same intelligence. I think it would be boring living in a world in which every things is arranged already.

At the end, I believed that we don't have the knowledge and right to change every thing and to use genetic engineering we should have some red lines and avoid crossing them.

Road Rage

Seldom have I been in so many rages. However, I believe that you shouldn't pull out your gun and if you do, you will have no other choice but shooting it! I have seen many people who didn't have the heart to get engaged in a rage but they did! Because of what they call temporary insanity. And after the rage was over they had only regret about what they had done.

It is my considered opinion that industrial age, and modern lifestyle cause people to lose their temper easily. It is hardly surprising that people can not control themselves, because of stressful jobs heavy pressures of nowadays lifestyle. Sometimes only by being calm and a bit selflessness do they stand a chance of not getting involved in stupid rages.

Once I saw a road rage when I was driving. This young guy was driving so fast and maneuvering in highway between cars. He was driving so closed to the other cars so that he had a lot of fun. But he caused irritation for the others.
Not since an old man complained have I seen such a rude and disrespectful manner. The young fellow gave the man his finger while he was holding his left arm in the air out of the car window. It was enough to make a carefree person mad, let alone a respectable decent old man.

Surprisingly, the old guy did not take it slightly! And sped up chasing the young man. So there they were, racing in the highway, disturbing the other drivers, shouting and insulting about and nerving themselves for the road rage! In my view, on no circumstances did they have the right to mess the highway up and the young guy was the main culprit of this messy situation.

Finally, the old man stopped the fellow by rubbing his car to the young guy's. And they continued their foolishness out of their cars, rowing about nothing! People, who had been watching this happening, mostly stopped by to enjoy a nice rage! careless of the volume of traffic increasing at their back. Fortunately, by then, I had passed them without getting stuck in the traffic jam. But I kept asking myself “should it have happened?!!”.

Sometimes we do something we shouldn't. Sometimes we don't have the heart to accept the consequences of what we have done. Sometimes we are too proud to apologize. Sometimes we just talk about dignity!

Never should we forget that we are human and we are given something that distinguishes us from animals and that is the brain and the power of thinking. It is about time we started reconsidering our manners towards each other!