Many media outlets yesterday and today are talking about 'bloody Tuesday'. Three murders within a few hours, not for ideas or ideals, nor for property or homeland, but for banal reasons.
In Durrës, a son killed his father, stabbing him after a momentary argument. Reporters say the killer had mental health problems.
But the other two murderers were brainless. A man, a pizza maker in a bar in Tirana, killed his colleague, a waiter, because the latter had bullied him. Even more grotesque, but also more banal, is the murder in Berat. A visitor from Tirana took a photo of his little daughter on a horse that the owner used to take tourists for a ride. I pay for the photo, I don't have to pay for anything, word brought word and the photo on a horse became a scandal: one was killed, the other told the prison to open, the girl was left orphaned, both families were severely damaged.
Such news brings to mind the fact that in our society many murders occur over small and often banal things: over a fence, over a water line, even over a word of mouth like 'it's wet, it's not wet'. For trifles, as the old women of Gjirokastra used to say.
It's hard to say where the roots of the ease with which we take another's life lie.
One explanation could be time. We live in a prolonged crisis, in a transition that seems to have no end. Halle me bag! Even stress, nervousness and aggression come with bag and go bag.
Murders for trivial reasons can also be explained by the fact that since 1997 we have had guns in the open. You get angry, you grab your Kalashnikov and turn around and do the damage. But some of the murders are also being committed with knives, like stabbing someone. All three murders yesterday, for example, were committed with cutting tools.
Perhaps we kill others easily because our ties to religion are weak and often absent. All religions have some moral messages at their core. "Thou shalt not kill" is among the first. Before being a religious message, the advice "thou shalt not kill" is one of the pillars of the morality of every society. Apparently, even with morality and ethics, we don't have things in order.
Schools and the media have huge shortcomings in instilling humanistic norms. If we were to talk about them, we would need winter nights.
They say that killings for nothing are related to the low quality of life. The higher the quality, the more precious life. Like any commodity… Sense of cynicism!
Perhaps the unbearable ease of killing is also related to political conflict. The Fathers of the Nation are killed and beheaded. Not for the flag, but to get votes and to give tenders and concessions. They are not killed with a scimitar or a lance, but with words. That is, they are killed and beheaded with a sword or symbolically. Seen this way, it is difficult to say that political conflict directly encourages murders. However, it is certain that it increases aggression. And aggression is the greenhouse where future murders grow and flourish.
You can list other factors that devalue life and make killing others a daily sport. However, at the foundation of all of them remains the human being and respect for human values. The healing of this wound, which flows fresh blood every day, is not healed simply by complaints and accusations that we tend to make, considering ourselves to be helpless. In fact, the work begins with something simple: what each one does to be human and to cultivate human values in oneself, in children, in relatives...