Oscar Gustavo Valdez attacked with his own weapon Police Maribel Zalazar in a treacherous and cunning way. Infinite sadness caused all citizens because the agent in an exemplary manner went to lend a hand to try to overcome her pain and found a inhuman and bestial reaction of someone who is part of a sociedad which is also split in two, ideologized and disinterested in values and respect.
He Respect is a central ethical value for any moral system in any culture.. This is because respect is what allows us to give entity to the others with whom we build a community and tells us what place they occupy in it.
This very fundamental ethical value is taught mainly in the primary family nucleus from early childhood. So when respect, consideration for others and good manners are not instilled in families, this means that society fails to develop its other values or that it requires a great deal of work to achieve them in other instances such as at school or in the university. sociability.
People have the ability and the need to understand and interact in public space And they do it with the tools they have. But when they lack the right tools, this problem is passed on to the rest of the community because In the face of abuse, another abuse is an expected reaction in response.
A few years ago it was unthinkable to answer badly to a teacher, a police officer or whoever was the authority in a certain area. It never occurred to us not to say “good morning” or “thank you” and it was seen as the least one should do to have a cordial relationship in their public space.
The tragic murder of the police in Retiro shows us this problem starkly because the attacker does not seem to have had any other motive than the attack an authority. He Respect for authority is one of the basic principles for the construction of a society so that its inhabitants can live together under a system that guarantees order and justice.
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Going back to Max Weber’s thought, we would say that if parents do not correct their children and deny that teachers try to discipline them, citing the rights that allow them to report students without reason, they will be arrogant and spoiled in front of their superior.
But what can we expect in a country where police, doctors, teachers, military, etc. are mistreated and humiliated. by a citizens deranged by the loss of values that eliminates all possibility of an authority that leads.
While Larreta and D’Alessandro go off on a tangent from the problem by raising the issue of the use of Tasers, Aníbal Fernández fuels the controversy by once once more questioning their use. Berni, as always, tries to stand out by hitting within the Frente de Todos (of which he is an official but not a part) to be able to dispute Bullrich’s place as the “most heavy-handed” Minister of Security in history.
But instead they should think that there is a problem of education around this whole thing. Not only for training the police but for education in general. Today in the Retirement area there is a big problem that we decided to systematically ignore. There sits one of the most important villas in the City of Buenos Aires. The so-called Villa 31 and 31 bis It is the oldest in the city and the one with the fastest growth rate today. Many acts of insecurity occurred in the areas surrounding the settlement, around Plaza San Martin and surroundings. This means that many people no longer want to travel through those areas where businesses and passers-by today suffer from this insecurity on a daily basis, but before it used to be one of the most charming and coveted in the city.
According to a national survey, there are 4,228 villas in the country. The sum of these reaches a surface of 415.5 km2 (twice the surface of the City of Buenos Aires). 3.5 million people live in these places and most of these are located in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. There is a process of urbanization of the popular neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires that, according to the authorities, raises the need to fully integrate their villas with the rest of the city, urbanistically and socially.
Beyond this problem, it is urgent to take care of instilling in Argentines the promotion of values in order to complement the circle of integration. As the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas points out, promoting mutual respect between citizens and facilitating political-moral agreements in society are the fundamental basis for a healthy and peaceful coexistence among the members of a society.
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We need to generate a society with an open mind and prepared for change, adaptation and transformation. While it is true that part of this conflict over authority occurs because of those who have the task of directing us.
In order to be able to trust the authorities once more, we need a deliberative democracy, honest politicians with plans that they can demonstrate before being voted on, participatory plans to achieve proactivity among citizens and, above all, speeches that show that the authority they have can be sustain in the facts fulfilling that role without hesitation and without lies. Because respect for authority is maintained when it shows respect for those below, for example, by proposing clear and fair rules.
Is it a dream to think that an Argentine politician blows himself up to carry out a national plan established with objectives and that he is not thinking regarding the next election? Perhaps if that were the case, we might respect more those who should be our highest authorities and from there to the bottom, respect everyone.
“Try not to be a successful man, but a man with values” Albert Einstein, German physicist.
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