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How much of a value do we put on life?


Clinical traumatologist Hanif Benjamin says the answer to that question may well be the reason for cases of domestic violence resulting in death.


Dominic Ramroop tells us more.
Transcript
00:00In an interview with TV6, clinical traumatologist Hanif Benjamin is blaming the rise in cases
00:06of violence throughout the country on the society not valuing the importance of life.
00:12We as a society have been stepping away from the importance, knowing the importance, understanding
00:18the importance of life.
00:20We have become very loose with how we see and interact with life as a people and therefore
00:28without the level of resiliency, that resiliency is spiritual, emotional, psychological, physical
00:35resiliency.
00:37We get to a place where darkness and despair seem to be the only way out.
00:44Solutions though cannot come from just one place.
00:47It has to be a countrywide approach.
00:51We must consider each and every one of our roles, our institutions, whether that is religion,
00:58government, non-governmental, school.
01:00We must all go back to a place where we put value on life and we teach people how to deal
01:07with difficulties.
01:09Benjamin also thinks that religion has a crucial role to play in restoring the society.
01:14We as a society need to do better.
01:17We need to go back to our school, Sunday school, our church mandir, our mosque, we need to
01:24do that.
01:25He is also of the opinion that people must be taught to respect the choices of others.
01:30We have to help people to understand that choice is a critical thing that is bequeathed
01:35to each and every one of us and my choice to leave cannot be usurped because you want
01:42to be with me.
01:44We have to teach people responsibility.
01:46He warns that if time is not taken to address and solve the problems in society, it will
01:52be a long way to the light at the end of the tunnel.
01:55But if we as a society don't take time to understand, take time to help, take time to
02:01mould our young people, we will forever be in this dark place.
02:06Dominic Ramroop, TV6 News.
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