2024-05-03 03:01:00
The face of the different defines the beginning of ethics. There is no exercise more difficult – and perhaps, more essentially human – than asking about the needs and emotions of others. In the exacerbated self-satisfaction of desires and pleasures, this individual vision of “freedom” converges, alien to social imperatives, far from being understood and thought through others.
That gray area where all traces of pity towards others are extinguished and the human figure stops moving. What behavioral alterations were instilled in these wild rugby players convinced that they were heading for a “party” of punches and kicks when in reality they were heading for a tragedy? There is a hatred that idolizes violence and its coercive pleasures, and that manifests itself in the need to satisfy an obsessive stimulus of pleasure. That violence so light of skin and bones. A blow, a beating, an insult. Everything normal, naturalized, everyday.
Four years and three months after the crime of Máximo Thomsen's new defender is trying to establish”>Fernando Báez Sosa, the pact of silence of the eight convicted young people has been blown up. It was enough for the Buenos Aires Court to ratify the sentences for the rugby players with life sentences, Máximo Thomsen and Matías Benicelli, to decide to disassociate themselves from the defense and change lawyers.
This was an obtuse crime produced by normal, banal class thugs obsessed with cheap violence. “I’m taking this shitty black man as a trophy,” he said, according to witnesses, during the beating. And so it was, they took him away.
Sometimes the trivialization of violence takes over the entire State. Will anyone wonder what links the murder of Fernando Baéz Sosa with the “doings” and criminal verbiage of this Government? All. Milei’s government has become a disturbing machine of trivializing violence, of promoting a culture of dehumanization of the other, of inferiorizing to dominate, of placing people against people. For the culture of hate to progress, it is necessary to lie, distort the facts, attack solidarity, declare social movements as a threat (it sounds familiar), feed racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic hatred, which leads to practices of obscene violence. , simple, irrational, as an invaluable support of a concrete oppression, of power and dominance, derived from a hierarchically exploitative structure. The next Fernando is already inoculated, the here and now is missing.
The horror of institutional violence flows, permeates, filters, oozes, under a part of anesthetized society that, with a certain Kafkaesque eccentricity, still maintains that Nisman was killed by a Venezuelan meteorite. Anything is possible in a boneless country where the rich fascinate us more and more, to the point that they run for office and win.
The defense of freedom – with which they fill their mouths so much – consists in avoiding the suffering of others, not in feeding it; in dismantling his drive not in elevating it. Today there is too much hate, too much pain, too much of everything. Fernando Baéz Sosa is no longer with us, and a beggar will spend the night in an ATM overflowing with money. There are many forms of violence. Life does not always manage to turn darkness into beauty.
Journalist, former Vélez player, Spanish clubs and 1979 World Champion