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1996

locked in - locked out

 

There in the jailhouse, they sit in, all the "bad boys“. Good locked in, to protect us upright citizens. To treat them with sentence, reformation of there criminal souls is the aim, meanwhile we forgot, that punishment -and especally to lock in somebody- is not automatically a answere to the question. We stir up the fear of normal people to the bad energy of the criminals. They will shurely steal all our money or even worse our lifes. So we lock up our doors, have barred windows, have our best in heavy safes, hire a bodyguard. We spend a lot of time and energy to think about methods to lock ourself in a norrowed life, to lock out all the things that frighten us.

This both barred pictural windows, I made for this topic, show the contrast between safety on one hand and self limitation on the other. The description of well known "criminals" show us clearly that troughout history the meaning of what is a crime has changed.

So the story of Onan tell us, who must die for the crime of refusing sex to the widowed wife of his own brother;

isn´t this a crime, or not?!

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