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Brawling over seats a bad sign of the times
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September 4, 2012, Tuesday
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A YOUNG man was slapped in the face until he bled because he didn't offer his seat to a woman with a baby nearly 10 days ago on a bus in downtown Hangzhou. Later he was proved to be a disabled person.
In a series of cases nationwide, we see people being beaten for refusing to give up their seats on public transport, in the latest chapter of what seems to be a moral quandary about correct behavior and self-sacrifice.
People with moral deficiency (who don't give up their seats to deserving people) can be condemned, but they don't deserve to be treated with violence because they offend moral values and not laws. In comparison, the attackers behave worse.
The attackers regard resorting to violence as their only choice if people ignore their appeals to give up their seats. It seems they start a brawl for the sake of justice, but can they still think of their initial intention when they call violence justice?
This "violent justice" can bewilder many people and encourage them to do the same, especially when we are overwhelmed by irrational mood.
If brutal acts are rooted in children's hearts, society will never step into civilization.
The practice violates common values, neither solving problems nor safeguarding civilized society.
In a series of cases nationwide, we see people being beaten for refusing to give up their seats on public transport, in the latest chapter of what seems to be a moral quandary about correct behavior and self-sacrifice.
People with moral deficiency (who don't give up their seats to deserving people) can be condemned, but they don't deserve to be treated with violence because they offend moral values and not laws. In comparison, the attackers behave worse.
The attackers regard resorting to violence as their only choice if people ignore their appeals to give up their seats. It seems they start a brawl for the sake of justice, but can they still think of their initial intention when they call violence justice?
This "violent justice" can bewilder many people and encourage them to do the same, especially when we are overwhelmed by irrational mood.
If brutal acts are rooted in children's hearts, society will never step into civilization.
The practice violates common values, neither solving problems nor safeguarding civilized society.
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