The Capital Punishment, the Crime, the State.

Laws are social agreements, social facts and the social instutacionalitation of the rules. fot that, the laws are an interesnting subject for any student of sociology too. The greatest French socilogist Emile Durkheim says the laws are cohercitive and support hardenss in a human group. That's true, but ¿that means we can do everything in the name of the law? I disagree.

I think the center of the discussion in those kind of themes is just one: The Human Rigths. The States of all the countries must guaranatee the respect of The Human Rigths, because the History teaches us about the disasters in people and societies when they were violiated. For that, in my opinion the Capital Punishment has no pros, just cons.

It's a scientific fact that the humans are a consequence of their social environment. In Chile and all over the world. So, the real solution is only a long term solution, because it means a social change. The social changes are not only from the State, because the State defends the social-model who permits social differences, marginalization, states of alination in the poorest people, etcetera. That is the reality because many states and politics defend Capital Punishment or hardening laws in general.

Personally, I've never been victim of a crime. But I think this it's not the really important thing. Important things are two: to defend the Human Rigths and to understand reallity about the crime, marginalization and real position of the State in those themes.

With a little help from my friends

I have many friends, and I feel very grateful about that. But now, I just can talk about one of my friends. So, I'm going to talk about Gabriel Lizama.

I met gabriel many yerars ago, when we werw only five years old and both were in kinder. Nothing in particular joined us in that time, because we were only kids, without common interest: now, the things are different.

Gabriel, also the rest of my friends, are absolutely crazy about the music, and this common passion is one of the most important reasons to be friends. For example, when we were sixteen years old we played the "Cantata Santa María de Iquique" (the most famous work of the chilean composer Luis Advis) with many other friends, because the hundred years commemoration of the slaughter. We played the work for one year approximately in many places of Santiago, even in the Nacional Congress of Human Rigths celebrated in the Universidad de Santiago. Maybe it's one of the most beautiful moments we have lived together.

Now, he studies Cine and plays in a rock band with his brother, and I study Sociology and play latin american music in a band with other friends. But the passion is the same. In fact, later I'm going to his house to listen to some vinilos of Radiohead, Bob Dylan and Beethoven, and tomorrow at nigth, we are going to listen to the concert of one of the most important brazilian musician: Caetano Veloso, membership of the Tropicalian movement.

The music flows in our veins.