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- Dec 10, 2023
Damn, i've seen already a good bunch of bodycam footage of jeets getting arrested and their default response to it is always "I'm sorey, let me go". Why the fuck do they think that saying that will work? And it doesn't matter if it is shoplifting or unlawful surveillance (stalking) they will always say "I have done nothing, i'm sorry. Please let me go" and also put all sort of excuses as to why you should not arrest them like them getting deported.
Indians lack the social and moral framework to be "sorry".Maybe that can work in India, at least if one is of a higher caste?
Western societies operate on a moral framework of guilt: doing bad things to others is a sin, for which you must feel true remorse in order to be forgiven. Whether you believe in a god or not, at a very fundamental and young level, naturally feeling bad for doing wrong is instilled into you. Doing something bad is intrinsic to you, regardless of whether anyone ever finds out it was you or not.
India (among others) operate on a moral framework of shame: doing bad things to others is only actually bad if it loses you social status when you are caught and brought to justice. Otherwise, if you can get away with it, doing bad things is actually good, because it brings you personal gain and thereby social status. Doing something bad is not intrinsic to you, but to how the society around you reacts to what you have done.
In most Indian languages, their equivalent of saying they are 'sorry' for something more directly translates as beseeching a person of higher status for mercy. When they are caught committing a crime and this time they can't smugly waggle their heads and get away with it, they switch to begging-for-mercy mode. It's all izzat/jugaad games.
I refer to @AssignedEva's post about this: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-india-menace.174997/page-992#post-22397648