Watching this tragic story of the 19-year-old in Kefalonia, I realize more and more every day, the illiteracy and lack of education of a large part of our domestic world.
Starting from the media that eats their flesh with disgusting, extremely bad-natured and malicious reports for television ratings, to the comments under heavy-handed headlines on sites that spout nonsense, reproducing "news" that probably has no relation to the real dimension of things.
What disgusts me the most is the labeling of a young girl who is no longer alive,
for the way she dressed, for the way she wore makeup or even for the way she walked.
And somewhere along the line, the label of prostitute, of the frivolous, of the foreign and promiscuous, of the immoral, of the corrupt... entered.
How much baseness and disrespect for a dead person, how much rot they feed us daily from the media!
Where has our respect for human life gone?
Where did the respect for her loved ones go?
We label everything, we insult everyone whether we know them or not, we justify nothing, we don't take any position, we only "criticize"!
We leave our own things out, we don't see them, we ignore them, we turn a blind eye, but we are the first to blame for evil deeds or gossip. Likewise, to accuse...
It's one thing to convey information after it has been checked and verified, and it's another to formulate speculations - and even uncontrolled ones - in order to control public opinion's reactions...
Tell me, doesn't this happen in our lives too?
We don't control the information behind it, we swallow it whole and draw conclusions.
Or even worse, we create the information to control reactions...
We don't care how our neighbor may live, feel, or experience situations; we just put a label on him and place him in a cauldron with all the other labels, without caring about the impact of this choice.
People are being fingered by the people themselves.
There is a vast and unbridgeable gap between information, its reception, the truth, the condition, the situation.
In the case of this particular girl, justice has the right to speak and no one else.
Whoever she was, whatever she was, however she was, she no longer lives...this should become a consciousness in the minds of critics of television, social media, and coffee shops.
Tomorrow it could be you, your child, your partner, your mother, your father...
Tomorrow the condition may bring you to an irreversible situation, so stop and respect human life.
Cut off the labels on people and put labels only to chart your course, your path. Stay close to the people you love and accept them as they are without blaming them for what doesn't suit you.
Today you may have them, tomorrow you don't know if they will be with you.
Close your ears to misinformation and bad criticism.
Death does not choose day or time.
HUFFINGPOST.GR
