Augusto:
In my opinion, fasting unto death is the beginning of an act of
suicide in slow motion. And in my opinion, suicide, or attempted
suicide, or for that matter "fast-unto-death", is cowardly,immoral and illegal.
It is also so under the present Indian law.
But it so happens that, at the time Gandhi went into those 'fasts unto death"
India was still under the British rule, and Indian laws were either
non-existent or could not have been in force. According to the former Attorney
General of India, Soli Sorabjee, fasting unto death is a criminal act, and
Gandhi, Vinobha Bave and other political leaders were guilty of that crime.
Now you may form your own judgment about what I think.
Bennet
--- On Mon, 14/12/09, augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: augusto pinto <pinto...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death
> To: "goanet" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
> Date: Monday, 14 December, 2009, 9:13 PM
>
> Bennet Paes wrote:
> > My contention is that any act that intentionally leads
> to one's death, or
> for that matter to
> > anyone else's death, is criminal and should be
> punishable under the law.
>
> I wonder what Mr. Paes thinks about a bloke named Mohandas
> Karamchand
> Gandhi.
>
> Just wondering
>
> Augusto
>
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