Cases of Moral Kidnapping

1. The incident in which Liu Fucheng sought help from six tycoons in China to raise money for his daughter's treatment drew widespread attention from the society. Soon after, two of the tycoons who were asked for help expressed their willingness to donate.

2. Netizens appealed to the jackpot winners to donate money. Cai Yanmei, an 18-year-old girl from Dianbai County, Guangdong Province, suffers from uremia. Cai's family has spent more than 100,000 yuan and is in debt. If the complete recovery, Cai Yanmei must replace the kidney, surgery costs more than 200,000 yuan.

3, September 2006, in order to raise the child "neural stem cell transplant" required 40,000 yuan of surgical fees, a mother to Faye Wang, Li Yapeng couple sent a letter of help, this letter was published in the newspaper.

4. In March 2006, a man in a robe dressed as the "Tang Monk" in a Beijing subway car called on passengers to tell celebrities such as Li Yuchun and Xu Jinglei to donate to a child suffering from leukemia, which was widely reported by the media.

5. This time it was the turn of the popular beauty star Fan Bingbing. Perhaps the wealth of the stars is too hot, every time the poor people through the media to the stars for help, and the stars happen to have little response, always inevitably a burst of public opinion bombardment.

The respect for the elderly is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, but also the socialist core values advocated, but once the moral "offside", it is easy to form a "moral abduction".

The so-called "moral abduction" is to use the standards of saints to require ordinary people, with the virtues to impose moral obligations, if someone fails to carry out such a standard, will be branded as "lack of morality" of the bad name.

The virtues are to be promoted, not forced. Han Yu in the "original destruction" wrote: "not to treat the people to their bodies, but to the saints look to the people, I have not seen its respect." It can be seen that consciously giving up one's seat is a matter of mutual respect and trust.

People without manners will not be born, things without manners will not be accomplished, and the country without manners will not be peaceful. Morality is perhaps one of the greatest inventions of mankind, it lies somewhere between the divine and the animal, guiding you to goodness and limiting you to evil. However, there is more to it than right and wrong, black and white, and there is a great deal of "gray area" in the world, because human nature is such a complex thing that it can only be seen as a matter of opinion.

But in any case, public order and morality must be guaranteed to operate within the framework of the right to freedom, do not let the chains of morality tethered to the neck of rational tolerance.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Moral Abduction

People's Daily Online - The virtue of giving up one's seat should be promoted, but "moral abduction" is "offside"!