Talking Musika
Monday, April 16, 2007
Some have approached these issues from the vantage of formal religion and the Christian scripture, many of them coming out of a church background.
Others, like myself, are more intellectually persuaded by the atheistic angle on moral existence but will nevertheless, by this alternate route, arrive at the same moral positions as the men and women of scripture.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...