Does the crime pay or not ?
David Guchua
Form 11 "A"
January 17, 1999
Does the crime pay or not?
In this essay, I would like to discuss the problems of crime and the
criminal deeds. This question is important today as never before.
Furthermore, this is the most vital problem and therefore it is worth
discussing.
In this country the crime usually pays. What crime is ever done it
pays greatly, because there is not enough power of the government and the
police to stop the development of criminal deeds. That is why you are
"allowed" to do everything you like and more besides. Vladislav Listiev,
Dmitry Holodov, Galina Starovoitova and many other famous politicians and
businessmen were insolently assassinated and the customers of these
criminal affairs are somewhere now enjoying their freedom and sure in the
idea that the crime pays.
I believe that for honest, religious and law respecting people, it is
out of the question that crime does not pay, because they all know that if
you commit a criminal deed you will be punished by the God, or by your own
conscience. Nevertheless, in our society some people have forgotten about
justice and law. They hardly understand their role in the life, and think
that all the life is based around them and the others can be ignored or
terminated. Such ideas are like parasites distributing among others and
infecting them.
Crime pays if it is well thought and prepared. For example lets take
the robbery of the bank. Some people think that the robbery of the bank is
connected with guns, a group of well-prepared terrorists, plans. I can only
say that these people watch TV and do nothing else, because what you need
for today's robbery of the bank is a computer, a modem, and some easy
skills. Moreover, you may be confident that no one will ever catch you if
you steal little sums of money.
Finally, I suppose I have concluded that there are two main points of
view on this question. Crime does not pay or it pays. I tend to think that
crime does not pay, because if I commit a crime (I wish I never did) I will
suffer for all my life, go to police, and tell everything.
