Mobile Phones=Rapes?
A house committee of the Karnataka legislative assembly has recommended that the state government ban mobile phones in school and colleges. Why? The committee has concluded that the unprecedented number of rape and molestation cases are directly linked to the use of mobile phones. The committee goes on to suggest that ''the youth shouldn't be allowed to use mobile phones until they become majors and attain maturity''. (As a side note, I'd like to point out the ''becoming majors and attaining maturity are two completely unrelated events. Proof of that, is that this extremely immature conclusion(to ban phones to prevent rapes) came from fully grown adults). The committee points out that mobile phones are being used to lure girls to remote places so that they can be raped. That is a perfectly good argument, except that mobile phones aren't the only way to lure anyone to remote places. Rapes have happened before mobile phones and that s...