This article is from WeChat public account:Everyone – Tencent News (ID:ipress), author: Zhang Feng 3, title figure from: vision China
A 9-year-old boy from Changsha, Hunan Province, went to school with his companion after lunch. He was riding under an adult man and killed with a screwdriver. The video on the Internet is really chilling.
9-year-old boy in the community suspected of being killed by a mentally ill person: the other party has a tool to start Did not dare to save
The tragic death of a boy is a sure fact. There are posts on the Internet that the boy was beaten for 30 minutes, and the onlookers reached hundreds of people. Some people had videos and some people called the police, but no one came forward to discourage them.
30 minutes of beatings, hundreds of people onlookers, this is another kind of pain and sorrow. Now we have no way to confirm how long it has been beaten and how many people are watching. However, as far as the video is out, the long-term beating is a fact, and the video does stand “some people.”
The local media went to verify, and witnesses said that there were “tens of people” there. The explanation given by a resident of the community to “indifferentness” is that the murderer is a tall man with a “murder weapon” in his hand, and the average person can’t subdue.
There is already public opinion on the Internet that this murderer is mentally ill. This kind of voice raises two kinds of concerns: First, why do guardians let mental patients run around? We still have a mechanism toRestricting mental patients? The second voice worried that the murderer was identified as a mental illness and would allow him to escape the death penalty.
After the 9-year-old boy was killed, the community property, residents and street health service centers responded. Some public opinion began to link “psychiatric diseases” with suspects, which will affect the subsequent case handling.
These two views have a common logic to treat a mentally ill person as a danger of isolation. If he is locked up before the accident, there will be no tragedy. After the tragedy occurs, the capital punishment should be imposed, so that not only will he take responsibility, but he will also be able to suffer from the consequences.
This view is very reasonable, and I dare not refute it. However, I faintly think that such an idea is one of the reasons why we become indifferent. “This is an extreme event caused by mental illness.” This view is conducive to keeping the hearts of the people on the spot. This is unusual, outside of life, as long as “detention” or “death penalty”, our lives can continue. We don’t care about people with mental illness, and we don’t care about the children who are beaten. They are all “abnormal.”
Similarly, many people question the security of the community. The community is full of cameras, security guards or monitoring personnel, whether it is watching the murder case behind the lens, why did they not stop it? We always equate monitoring or security with security. When we hand over our “trust”, we will feel at ease. Those onlookers are likely to think that it is a security matter to save a child and it has nothing to do with himself.
This is the security situation facing urban communities. Everyone feels dangerous, but they feel that they are not responsible for safety.
I can guarantee that such a tragedy will not happen in the countryside where I was a child. Of course, the countryside is much more dangerous. Domestic violence is everywhere. Almost every parent plays children. However, if a person “plays in the dead”, the neighbors will not care, they will always appear in time, and drink the parents. Atrocities.” An uncultured rural woman will also perceive the suffering of a child and help. They do not act out of reason, but a feeling of suffering for others. “That is your child, don’t you feel pain?”
The old-fashioned “family homes” of the past cities will not have such atrocities. A family member is a colleague at work. He is a neighbor after work. There are many people who usually go there. The children in the family are all “looking up”. A child, if his parents are not there, don’t even have to worry about starvation, the neighbor will take him into the house to eat.
In contrast, the community of today’s cities is completely different. People live in a building as the “owner”, the house number and the real estate license number are the signs that distinguish each person. I have lived in a community for 10 years and have not yet recognized 5 neighbors on the same floor. I know two or three of them, and that is limited to waiting for the elevator to change to another place, and meeting each other may not be recognized.
There has been a lot of talk about this “atomic” state of urban people. A community may live for thousands of people, but they are all solitary individuals with no support. If you can’t support them psychologically, you can’t hug each other if you are in trouble. It’s hard to expect people to show a helping hand when they are beaten.
We all believe that safety is the most important value in life, so we are in favor of repeated security checks, hoping that the system can screen out bad elements. We are in favor of the community and the school are full of monitoring, so maybe the bad guys will not dare to act rashly.move. We have a sturdy security door for our home, and even two iron doors. We are still not worried about installing surveillance in our own homes so that we can monitor the movements at home when we go to work, and see if the nanny or parents have abused their children.
In the process, we still don’t know what we got. However, what we have lost, but it is clear: while we constantly surrender our trust, we lose the ability to perceive others’ pains and lose our courage to face problems. Someone in the neighbor’s house is fighting, we will call the property, or call the police, but I don’t think I should go and ask, to listen to the neighbors, what is the difficulty.
In the end, what we lose is the ability to act. People are sadly asking why those onlookers do not take action to stop atrocities. This is the answer. Some friends think that Changsha people like to brag about their own dare to dare to move, but this time it is a coward. This view is unfair. In essence, this has nothing to do with who you are, but about the existence of the Chinese. Similar things have happened everywhere, with very few exceptions, most of them are as sighing as Changsha.
Residents living in urban communities are, in a sense, like sheep, docile and harmless, and have no resistance when the danger comes. Real bravery is not given by parents, nor is it achieved by one person going to the gym to practice muscles. The basis of courage is “trust in the group”. You know that when you raise an old man, you will not be deceived, because “everyone is watching it”, someone will testify for you. You know that when you rush out, there will be someone to support, rather than rushing out to find yourself a “fool.”
When this extreme case occurs, community monitoring will not have any effect, because the camera will not stop the atrocities. People need a responsible and courageous security guard after the camera. Unless the residents of the community can be responsible and brave, this is an unrealistic expectation. Unless the community can have a “public life,” people can walk out of the pigeon cage and face issues that require courage. People need to learn to take action and be able to take responsibility, otherwise the state of isolation and helplessness will not change.
A few days ago, I spent 3,000 yen in Tokyo to attend a first aid training. Projects include the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, artificial respiration, and AED equipment. The coach provided a rubber-made body for me to do practical exercises. Finally, I simulated the real-life scene and worked on it in the streets where people came. At the end of the training, I also thought I could master the first aid, and the coach began to summarize. He said: “The most important thing in first aid is not the skills you can be proficient, but the first step. When you find someone needs help, you have to be brave.”“
Discussing Changsha with some friends. In the end, we asked this question: If it is you, will it be shot? I hope that your answer will be the same as mine. Let’s try it and make a change.
This article is from WeChat public account:Everyone – Tencent News (ID:ipress), author: Zhang Feng 3