You are right that Nepali law is bad in that it "used to" allow a man get away with an accident. I believe it has been changed. But did I defend it in my posting?

If you still don't get it, here is what I praised about Nepal's legal system:its underlying philosophy that a man can be reformed in penitentiary. Tell me what is the goal of having jail? In Nepal, the philosophy is that we should send a criminal to jail so that when he comes out he is a reformed man. That's why we give shorter jail sentence. (The Max penalty is 20 years). Does it work? I don't know. I asked this question in my first post too.

In America, I read about and argued with a juror who sentenced a Nepali to 360 years in jail. She was in Sajha.com. Her philosophy was that everybody who has once committed a crime is a threat to society and should be locked away for life. I asked her in that case why don't we shoot pretty much everybody rather than locking them away for centuries? I think the society here gradually believes that criminals can't be reformed, no matter what. This was the underlying philosophy behind the penal system here that I was talking about and disagree with.

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In a related post, I was reading comments of people in chron.com and what I found was that people were relating this accident to bigger things. Someone was even accusing this guy of being a moslem in training to kill people here. (And another poster proposed that sisters/mother of Sajan Timilsina be kept in whorehouse. Those asking for hanging him were numerous.)This "twilight zone" type behavior reminded me of a radio talk show hosted by a local women when I was in the university in a local radio. She was pretty much saying that she didn't trust any foreign student, and that anyone is possible terrorist and needs to be checked strictly. I called to tell her that she had no idea but universities in the US are major "exporters" in the states, bringing in foreign money and benefitting local society.I hope America goes to referendum soon about whether they want to stop immigration rightaway. In a country where most of the research labs, top universities, almost all graduate programs and top multinational companies rely on foreign talents, if antiimmigrant feeling is rising, then their leaders must find a way to address this issue in direct manner.

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