Reflection to Xiao Yue Yue Incident

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On 13 October in 2011, a 2-year-old girl named Xiao Yue Yue was run over by two vehicles in an alley of Busan, Guangdong Province, and both of the drivers fled. After the accident, there were 18 passers-by but none of them gave a hand to save her. Until a scavenger named Chen Xian Mei passed by, Xiao-Yue Yue was rescued and finally sent to the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command. Unfortunately, she finally passed away in a few days. After the incident, the social media and the general public blamed heavily the drivers and those 18 passers-by with “cold-blooded”, and criticize the current “moral standard” of the Chinese. We started to question: Is there anything wrong with the "moral standard" of Chinese people now? To begin with, Morality refers to the codes of conduct put forward by a society which used to judge whether or not a person's behavior is justified with the guidelines. It acts as a scale to evaluate and regulate people's behavior towards the social norm. In this Xiao Yue Yue incident, as the society as a whole criticize the drivers and those 18 passers-by, it is clear that we all have a common ‘moral standard’ in our mind that indicate what should be done and what shouldn't be. It is no question that we are told to follow this ‘moral standard’ setting by the society and perform the corresponding behaviors, but why did those 18 passers-by act in an exact opposite way? In fact, nowadays, it is very risky to give help to any strangers on the street in China. Prior to the Xiao Yue Yue incident, there is an issue often being discussed in the Mainland society in recent years – Will you give a hand to help if you saw any elderly fall down on the street? Incidents were happened in a similar pattern: many people were being framed after helping the elderly, and some of them even required to compensate the elderly with up to one hundred thousand

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