"The perfect crime is to kill someone's joy of living" says Paulo Coelho.
He is absolutely right. Killing man's joy of living is the same thing as killing his motivation to work, to create, to publish, to share. In a word, it is killing his motivation to live... This is something quite close to killing someone...
I can even say that killing someone's motivation and joy is even worse than killing himself. Because, when you kill a man, he shifts to another dimension and loses his all connections with this World, while in contrast, the man lost his motivation and joy is still obliged to exist, while he has not any desire to do so.
This way, he is breathing in and out but not living. Is this even good? Is this even useful? Can we call it "living"? Can we see the act of filling our lungs with the air and subsequently discharging it as a living? What is the difference between a simple pump and a man then?
Yet there is a big difference between the living of an animal and that of human being. Just breathing in and out, hunt for a food, sleeping and waking up can be seen as living for animals, but it is not a 'living" for a man after all.
There are some distinguished actions that makes us human beings. We can be a real human beings only by implementing those to our lives. Thinking, creating, sharing, caring, moreover not to do all these for an individual but for a society.
Yes, only these are making us different from a lovely and cute dog that comes out of it's cozy house and barks for a couple of minutes and continues it's life as it is. But, that is pretty obvious that, for being able to do all those actions that makes us real human beings, the most we need is motivation and joy of life with the statement of Paulo Coelho.
So, killing one's joy of living is downgrading him from the human being to an animal. Yes, this is, actually, killing a man, and create an animal instead that breathing in an out but not living as a human. Unfortunately, all the constitutions, laws that we must obey are punishing those murderers that they don't even give a chance for one to live as an animal. If we kill someone, but still give him a chance to live as an animal, I mean, to breath in and out eat and sleep, but not to have a motivation to create, discover, invent, share, teach, care, we will not be murderers in "all-seeing eye" of the Law. Ridiculous, isn't it?
But what is I'm sure about, we can hide ourselves away from the governments, courts, laws, but not from All-knowing One.