Only a fraction of Guyanese go into crime (part 2)

Dear Editor,
Through survival instincts and experience, humans know that it takes good moral values to survive under conditions of poverty and to successfully climb out of it.
Also, nature has designed and engineered humans with the most complex and sophisticated intellectual powerhouse, known as the human brain, to intelligibly self-construct mental ladders with good moral values to exert appropriate behaviours necessary to survive in poverty and to climb above it as decent human beings with a conscience.  Good moral values drive adaptive behaviours necessary for survival, but sadly and unfortunately, criminals fail to make the connection.
Moreover, criminals are heavily influenced by bad values, which drive them into crime.  Even though our brains are highly capable of instantly generating infinite survival strategies in response to poverty, crime can’t be one of those strategies, because it results in harm, death, and destruction.  Crime is highly abnormal.  For example, we all watched how five criminals were instantly killed in a brazen robbery about a month ago. And just about a week ago, we witnessed how a hard working cheese vendor was senselessly gunned down for his own sweat.  Moreover, we witness daily how criminals brutalise, rape and murder hardworking citizens in the most inhumane ways for their sweat.
Humankind is efficiently designed for survival, and this means that criminal behaviours will be forced into extinction by the forces of survival. Of course this will be realised under a Government that respects its people enough to set zero tolerance on such a destructive phenomenon as criminal behaviour. But, for now, the crime rate continues to climb because our Government refuses to understand the crime dynamics.  And also, its silence on this problem is certainly an endorsement.
At this juncture, another relevant and important question needs to be addressed: So why do criminals fail to see good values as necessary tools required to handle poverty?  Unfortunately, the reality is that criminals are created by the wrong values they internalize, primarily from caregivers who are most often parent figures and members of our larger society.
More often than not, criminals are raised in dysfunctional and broken homes, where bad values are instilled and reinforced. Also, members of society, including politicians and local activists, send the wrong message to criminals by remaining silent when criminals murder hardworking Guyanese, but become activated when criminals are taken down by the Police.  This has got to be hypocrisy to the max. Where is the logic in this?  This is unkind to every Guyanese, including criminals.
Society must understand that the Guyanese people do not deserve to be murdered at the brutal hands of criminals.  And society must also stop failing criminals.
After all, crime is a dangerous business, and it is the nature of such a business that criminals will likely be killed.  And so, if you want to save the lives of criminals, then teach people good values, instead of misleading them and visiting them in jail and attending their funerals.

Sincerely,
Annie Baliram