Auto Empathy Virus

What would you feel if I punch you hard on the back? You’d be hurt, right? You’d feel Pain, both physical and emotional, especially when you see me carefreely walking away, leaving you with a bruise on your shoulder and perhaps, a question in the depths of your soul which goes, “Why is Life so unjust?”

It’s a fact: people around the world breathe injustice and violence. The Black Eyed Peas even made money out of that by singing “People killin’ people dyin’, children hurt, can you hear them crying?”

Well, we can’t keep looking for love forever as an answer to that. Injustice and violence, such as the one I demonstrated earlier, (and the fact that they happen to everyone almost everyday) inspired me to think that if I were to come up with something that would contribute to the well being of the world, I would develop this--AEV or the Auto Empathy Virus.

AEV would be an airborne viral strain that compulsorily enables human beings to feel the pain that they inflict on other human beings as soon as they cause it. It means that aggressors would find themselves in the other person’s shoes, whether they like it or not—as the term Auto Empathy so sincerely suggests.

The rationale behind AEV is simple: the culture of violence is growing in staggering proportions worldwide, while The Law is seriously failing to control that. The apprehension of perpetrators in the current justice and law enforcement system more often than not takes months, years, even a lifetime (if you talk about our country’s case.) I feel sorry for the cliché “Justice delayed is Justice denied,” it can’t help dying multiple and prolonged deaths out of sheer fatigue. I mean, I can actually feel how badly it wants to go on retirement but with the way things are, fat chance! AEV would change that.

Let me show you how: I punch you on the face, in an instant I’m reeling from the same intensity of pain I gave him. I say some terrible things to you which made you feel demeaned and discriminated and I’ll end up feeling the same way. I steal your wallet and you go hungry, I’ll end up hungry as well, no matter how many meals I buy myself with your money. That’s how it works. That’s justice served.

But you might ask: “What if I killed Mr. Lane in self-defense? Will that kill me too? No, it won’t. AEV only works when the harmful act is driven by a vicious will or cruel intentions. That’s how cleverly created AEV would be, connecting human consciousness, utilizing human biochemistry, hurdling even moral dilemmas.

Amazing as it would be, there’d be those who’d say AEV goes against Nature, AEV is about “playing God,” AEV is against human rights.

Nevertheless, I’d go for it because it would make people think twice about hurting others, it’d be like having an efficient justice and law enforcement mechanism in every person, one that has teeth that cuts faster than you can “I’m sorry.” It would be like the change that comes from within. And trust me on this one: we need that.