The Bystanders
Today I want to talk about a group of people who are called bystanders. You must be not unfamiliar with them, you can usually see such a group in the spot of a traffic accident, a quarrel, or something like these. They often show up driven by the curiosity. They are there talking about what happened, how could this happen, what is the situation now, and what will happen later. Sometimes they know the solution to the problem, they will seap it up, but no actions. To make it clearer, let me set an example for you. An accident happened. A man who is walking across the street is hit by a car. He lied on the road, blood all body and face, half breathing. He is still alive. But the driver slipped away in fear of being put into prison. Several people were attracted here, and they stand crowding the man. Then one asked:” what happened?”
“He was hit by a car?” another replied.
“How is he?” asked a third man.
“still alive, but he will die if not transfered to hospital.” But no one moved. They did not leave either, still standing there talking. Soon the man died of losing too much blood.
In such a case we can not capture any one of these by standers. They will not be punished according to the law. But do not you think these men are wrong? They should be blamed by the morality which the society has advocated for a long history till now. Don’t these people know the morality? have they forgotten it? Our government has spent a lot of timeand money in developing socialist culture and ethics, how could they have no idea of morality？ Then what is going on?
