Recently, the world seems not peaceful. People in a few countries gathered to protest the governments. At first, I was very confused that why the Chinese news media spared no effort to report how many planes had been sent to transport how many people back to their motherland instead of reporting what was going on in these countries. However, after thinking for a while, I thought the way the media acted might have something to do with the similar event happened in China before. The major difference of the events in China and Egypt is the governments’ attitude on using violence or not, which may be the reason of different results. After the violent resolution, almost all the countries around the world showed regret to the way Chinese government acted. Additionally, approximately half of the countries around the world ended the diplomatic relations with China. Almost the whole world thought Chinese government was wrong. This is their idea, which absolutely has nothing to do with me. I think whether the way was right or wrong cannot be simply judged.
Let us take an old example. Suppose that you are a driver of a train which is running on the track at full speed. At the end of the track, you find that there are five workers working on the track. You try to stop but you cannot, because your break does not work. You feel desperate, because you know if you crash into these workers, they will definitely all die. Suddenly, you find that there is a side track up to the right and there is only one worker working there. Your steeling wheel works, so you can turn the train on the side track, killing the one, saving the five. When asked about what is the right thing to do, most people will choose to turn the train for the simple reason that it is a choice of killing one or five. But is it fair to the one who is supposed to survive? Let us imagine another situation. There are a same train and the same track. You are only a pass-by. You can save the five and kill the one by switching the track. Then, what is the right thing to do? Almost nobody will choose to switch. Because it is none of your business, if you do nothing. But if you do switch the track, it becomes murder. We can see that the right answer changes with the position we are in to judge the event. So, sometimes it is very difficult to say what is right or wrong. Or there is no right or wrong, actually. The so-called right answer is just what more people tend to agree with. And I think it is the same with the action government should take when faced with protests.
You may find that sometimes unfairness always exists no matter what choice is taken. However, I want to say that this is the world we live in and justice does not always prevail. You can understand the real fairness only when you accept the unfairness.
In my opinion, there is no absolute fairness at all. Only relative fairness exists. Fairness has basis such as your ability, you social position, money.... Hence, it is a must to learn knowledge and become stronger.
ReplyDeleteIndeed,it is very difficult to judge right and wrong sometimes because people always think more about their own benefit naturally. As for Chinese government, I believe it has reason to do so. After all, managing such a big country with so many minorities is not that easy. And what measure it takes will make a big difference.
ReplyDeleteThe world is full of contradiction. As for our motherland, I think they did have made some mistakes and it is acceptable for our motherland did that for our whole country. Before I came to Singapore I thought it must be terrible to live in Singapore because it rains a lot, but when I am here I feel very comfortable. So only after we have experienced by ourselves can we tell whether it is wrong or right.
ReplyDeleteYou list a really tough question. I don't believe there is 100 percent fairness, but it doesn't mean that fairness doesn't exist. the basis of fairness is the education fairness, we Chinese have long way to go...
ReplyDeleteYou must first understand that we are all living in an imperfect world and the rules are man-made. What is fair is subjective. Each person views fairness based on each of his or her own experience and worldview.
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