The country is, today, a scene of road tragedies and violent behavior among citizens.
The long trail of pain and death that passes before our eyes colors reality every day.
We see it in videos or live on phone screens, on television news and on the streets themselves.
We see the accident. We see the fight after the plug. We watch the 15-second video and comment: And why is our country going like this?
But between the clash or the fights between citizens there are other deaths that are not recorded.
It is the death of patience in the two-hour stoppage that steals the citizen’s day, stressing them out.
The law also dies, every time the red light is ignored by a vehicle driver, every time a motor goes in the wrong direction or in every car that is double-parked for “only 5 minutes.”
When the rule is not followed, the street turns into a jungle. And in the jungle the most aggressive rules.
There is also another death. That of the future, when the young man who was going to work or the mother who was shopping at the market dies.
With all of them, the life project of a citizen, the family, the laughter dies equally.
Violence and fatal traffic accidents are first cousins.
Both are born from the same thing. Zero impulse control, plus zero respect for others, plus zero immediate consequences.
If we want fewer wakes and fewer viral videos of fights, the solution is to regain respect. Because a city without respect is just a road to the cemetery.
Less violence and better social coexistence must become the number one priority of this country.
