Humans can climb up to the top of the pyramid of living things because we help each other despite different ethnics, religions, nations, mother tongues and political views.
When we face the death or those walking on the edge of life, we put aside all the disputes and save as many lives as we can. This is natural humanity. By putting aside the minor self, we contribute to save the greater solidarity of humankind. Or, this was what I thought. When I read the editorial column of Apple Daily of two days ago, I am shocked by the term of Lee Yi. (I deliberately omit "Mr".) He has used the term "comeuppance" when he wrote about the earthquake. Today he writes another editorial column attempting to explain that he uses the term only for those who have power in China and he intended to induce reflection. He also claims that he is an intellect and therefore should be impartial and impersonal.
Not only this Lee but also some people say something like "I would rather donate to somewhere else because I don't think it's worth donating to China...". The earthquake makes many people die at the blooming age. Many of those who passed away are only kids. 12th of May was a day that the whole country or even the world mourned. I still mourn for the dead. I am still worried about those who are hanging on with their lives under the rubble. How dare people say something like this? Are they cold-blooded? No matter how Lee disguises his purpose, the term is extremely offensive to those who have lost their precious next of kin. Being impartial and impersonal does not contradict to being human. There are many intellects with humanity. No matter what kinds of comeuppance, those who have died are innocent. Anyone with the slightest humanity will have grievance in their voice. Anyone with the slightest humanity will care about the relief of the disaster. Anyone with the slightest humanity will know how to respect the dead and the survivors. Anyone with the slightest humanity will carefully choose their choices of wordings and postpone any criticism after the last effort of rescue becomes in vain. Who can say whether this is worthy or that is not worthy? Are their own lives worthy then? Are the lives of their next of kin worthy?
I am angry. I am very angry. I am angry because I have not recognised that there are so many walking cold-blooded reptiles on this planet and I have been such a fool that I believe they could become human. Disgusting creatures! Everyone has a bottomline. But there is a
bottomline agreed by most of the people. This is not violation of freedom of speech. The emergence of a convergent conclusion or direction simply means that this is a simple basic commonsense!
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They are simply not human being
No need to angry people without heart, they do not worth us to hate. While i am praying of the people in suffer (especially children), is there anything we can do?
@ahsimgrace - Sandra and I have donated several thousand dollars in Mainland and in Hong Kong respectively. We would like to donate some more later to different bodies. We think that distributing the donation to different bodies can minimise man-made problems in flow of resources.