Why RAPE?

    All these days I have been disturbed by the news of rape flooding the news papers and Television channels. The way the rape news has spread all over the country and world shows how people feel saddened when  human dignity is not respected. I believe in each person there is an instinctual drive towards the good; we all long to do good and feel good.
     Reflecting over the rape case that was in the news last couple of weeks and other related news, I was thinking of the way the "other" is degraded in the case of a rape. No one who recognizes the "other" as a person will be able to do such an abominable act. The tendency to rape and the thought of rape comes about  when one has failed to realize that one is a "human person;" with dignity and sacredness. In the case of rape the person involved in the crime is unable to recognize the other as "person" and consequently; himself (as person). Thus, in degrading the "other" the rapist degrades himself.