On the Absence of Social Morality
Bian Xiaopengyu's case and Xu Yunhe's case, social concerns caused by morality, honesty and conscience, still haunt people's minds. In the autumn wind 10, another new moral incident triggered the discussion of all the people in the society, which also added chill to this autumn-a 2-year-old girl in Foshan, Guangdong Province was run over by a car twice in a row, 18, and no passerby came forward to help. The aunt who finally saved the girl is a scavenger at the bottom of society. What kind of moral standards make the aunt who picks up garbage enthusiastically help? What kind of moral standards exist in today's society? Today's composition channel is telling the truth. In recent years, frequent social moral events have found a series of composition materials and current affairs materials about morality for students, and comprehensively discussed morality from the aspects of moral definition, moral outlook and current affairs cases. Morality lacks composition material. Event replay 20 1 1 year1October 13 At 5: 30 pm, a tragedy happened in Guangfo Hardware City, Huang Qi, Nanhai, Foshan: Yue, a two-year-old girl who was run over by a van twice, was run over by a small container truck a few minutes later. It is hard to understand that more than a dozen passers-by who passed by the girl in seven minutes turned a blind eye to this. Finally, an aunt who picked up garbage took Yue to the side of the road and found her mother. Now Xiaoyueyue is in the intensive care unit of Guangzhou Military Region General Hospital, close to brain death, and her life is in danger at any time. Recently, a number of so-called Peng Yu cases and their judgments have been continuously concerned by public opinion, and they have been identified as the reasons for moral decline and social indifference. It seems that in all interpersonal conflicts, old people tend to cheat money, while young people are ready to help others. This view is actually vulgar. Objectively, it finds a far-fetched excuse for the moral indifference of our society. The morality we advocate is an altruistic value and practice, which constitutes a pair of contradictions with the ingrained self-interest tendency in human nature. Because of this, moral cultivation has never been a thing that can be popular all over the world. China's so-called moral decline is actually a concept put forward in the 1980s. At that time, many people were already seriously dissatisfied with the moral condition of society. It is obviously unconvincing to use the Peng Yu case to explain the current moral decline. Undeniably, Peng Yu's case will increase the anxiety of those who help others, but Peng Yu's case may explain why many people tend to watch after the old man falls to the ground, but it cannot explain the moral problems of people watching before the old man falls to the ground. In the case of Nanjing Peng Yu, Peng Yu described that the old lady who fell to the ground was knocked down, but the perpetrator walked away; In the case of Peng Yu in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, Mrs. Shi, who was crushed under a tricycle, was knocked down by other passing vehicles. If the old ladies who fell to the ground have dispelled the moral enthusiasm of the society by claiming compensation from Peng Yu, then those who should be responsible for the old lady's fall will also walk away because of their immorality. The elderly are also victims of moral anomie and social disorder. At present, the moral situation of our society is really worrying, but where is the root of people's immorality, we must accurately locate it. Tracing back to the source, and then prescribe the right medicine, can we receive the curative effect. Even though Peng Yu was innocent, the court ruled that they were not responsible for the injuries suffered by the elderly. As a result, people's worries about helping others are only eliminated, but it is not enough to form a positive incentive to help others. Who will bear civil liability when the old man falls to the ground? This is still not solved. Morality is the foundation of human society, which runs through all aspects of social life and is everywhere. In the vast field of human morality, helping the fallen elderly is actually just a small wave. Even the moral law of helping others is quite rich in connotation and extensive in extension, and it is only a trivial matter to help the fallen elderly. If an old man falls down, some of them need us to reach out and help him up, but from the common sense of rescue, the most appropriate way should be to call the police to 120 and the public security organ, and the professional organization is responsible for handling it. The reason why we stand idly by is not because the old people who fall to the ground may extort money, but because we are suffering from social indifference and moral indifference. The lesson of the so-called Peng Yu case is actually just an excuse. Recently, an old man fell to the ground and no one helped him up. Everyone stopped to watch, and public opinion thought that this was the result of the Peng Yu case. We can take the Peng Yu case as an excuse not to help the elderly who fell to the ground, but we can't find an excuse for young people not to give up their seats on the bus. There are two or three rows of seats for the elderly, the sick and the disabled in Wuhan, and four or six rows in Wu Hanyou. Many young people get on the bus and sit in these special seats. Some people give their seats to the elderly, but more people refuse to give their seats. A famous professor in Nanjing recently wrote that bus seats should be given priority and old people should give up the idea of letting young people give up their seats. This situation cannot be explained by the Peng Yu case, but can only be attributed to the indifference and immorality of citizens. Now, everyone is lamenting the lack of social integrity, the trading of power and money, the profit-seeking of vegetable merchants and hospitals, and the arbitrary charges of schools. Many of them are institutional problems, but in the final analysis, they are also moral problems, and their roots deserve serious reflection. Reflection is a process of rebuilding social moral order, which needs a macro perspective, from the perspectives of human nature, system, concept and practice. Moral indifference is often accompanied by conscience anxiety. At this time, if there is an excuse, it can bring great comfort to the uneasy conscience. This is the temptation of the Peng Yu case, and we must get rid of it. (Yang Yuze) Xinhuanet Comment: The law must be involved in the moral field. On September 26th, Xu, a 73-year-old man from Yantai, fainted in the street, and no one helped him. When he woke up, he raised 200 yuan money to help. A young man stepped forward to help him up and left without taking his money. After the media reports, some commentators said: Some experts suggested to increase the punishment for' blackmailers' and punish blackmailers by law. The truth is not bad, but if the rescuer can't produce evidence, how can he produce evidence that has been falsified? The law is not omnipotent, and forcibly intervening in the moral field is not necessarily a good thing, nor can it be controlled. The key to truly solving the problem of "saving people from injustice" and solving the problem of "saving themselves" with money after an old man falls is to start from morality. He also wrote: If everyone can give a sincere heart and go forward bravely, it will inevitably converge into a torrent of social justice. The law is not omnipotent, which I totally agree with. No one in the world says that the law is omnipotent, except fools. However, although the law is not omnipotent, it can be done to a certain extent in some fields. If you put it aside because it is not omnipotent, or even use its limited ability, it is also a fool. Indeed, many times, the parties can't produce evidence of saving lives, and they can't produce evidence of corruption. In this case, the law is powerless. Because the law values evidence. However, it does not rule out shelving legal weapons when evidence can be produced. For example, the recent dummy incident in Rugao, Jiangsu Province is based on the camera on the bus. In the face of hard evidence, the hypocritical old woman was forced to apologize. I have made an appeal that social morality must defend it and save it with legal weapons. Only this action can embolden morality and conscience, and at the same time make those immoral people who kidnap and rape morality have scruples. In fact, the law has intervened, but in the opposite direction. In the case of Nanjing Peng Yu in 2006, the presiding judge of Gulou District Court made the following reasonable imagination without evidence: from the common sense analysis, he (Peng Yu) is more likely to collide with the plaintiff. If the defendant is courageous, it is more practical to catch the person who bumped into the plaintiff than to just help each other in good faith. If the defendant was doing a good deed, according to social common sense, after the plaintiff's family arrived, they could have stated the facts and asked the plaintiff's family to take the plaintiff to the hospital and then left on their own, but the defendant did not make such a choice, and his behavior was obviously contrary to reason. Although the final result of this case is an out-of-court settlement, the damage to China's social morality is immeasurable. Since then, there have been endless reports about the old man who fell without help. The above theorists say that the key is to proceed from morality and don't know what it means. Presumably, it may be education and appeal, or it may be a reward for those who are brave. The old man in Yantai was holding 200 yuan RMB for help, and his eyes were wide open. At this time, the risk of being misunderstood should be relatively small. If we take this as a basis, it shows that if everyone can give a sincere heart and be brave enough to take responsibility, it will inevitably converge into a torrent of social justice, and the law does not have to intervene, and morality is fully capable of saving itself, which is unconvincing. Historically, we have always advocated the rule of virtue and asked people to cultivate their self-cultivation and improve themselves. We are not good at using legal weapons and are not used to the rule of law. Since the reform and opening up, we have put forward the goal of building a society ruled by law and made gratifying progress. However, it should be admitted that the law is still blank in many places, especially in some aspects that are considered trivial but related to morality. For example, ginkgo biloba in public green space is ripe, and some people openly hold long bamboo poles and smash the ground with leaves, but no one cares. Another example is the lotus grass in the green space. Someone openly pinched off its leaves, and no one took it home. Because the law is blank here, morality has become the object of injury, and immorality is pervasive: public things can be taken for themselves. If the relevant parties legislate on this and instruct the departments to manage according to law, whoever steals public property will be punished, thieves will be vigilant and with moral support, they may grow up. The conclusion is that in order to cultivate and maintain social morality in China, the law must intervene in the moral field.