It is also wrong to denigrate the police’ supposed poor academic achievements. What is wrong if some police have not done well in the HKCEE or DSE and studied YiJin? Academic performance is not indicative of a person’s character. YiJin was introduced to give young people a second chance, and many have taken that chance to develop a successful career, including becoming a police offier. On the other hand, going to university does not make one a better person by itself. It is not even a guarantee for success. There is also the irony that more and more police officers are university graduates, equating the “bad” police with YiJin is factually wrong. Worse, denigrating YiJin graduates antagonises a large population who are not police officers. In fact, many protesters are probably YiJin graduates themselves. But given the present atmosphere, they probably would be very hesitant to speak up. How ironic is that?
These abuses stay at the verbal level, and are largely non-criminal acts. But there are also many businesses broken into, and fires set. These are more than unacceptable behaviour, but truly criminal. We can boycott the businesses of people that we do not agree with. But it is wrong to vandalise people’s businesses. We can voice our displeasure against the verdict of the court that we disagree with. But it is wrong to attack and set fire to the law courts.
We are supposed to be striving for the lofty goals of political freedom and justice. We should be worthy of these goals. We cannot behave dishonourably, such as insulting innocent people, denigrating efforts for self-improvement, and wilfully damage other people’s property.
God would not want us to behave dishonourably while claiming to pursuer lofty goals.
3 comments:
Hi Stephen --
I often agree with a lot of what you write -- or am at least sympathetic. With regards to this post though: I can't shake off the feeling that you're holding protesters to far higher standards than you are the police, and quicker to condemn them too.
To be sure, on my own blog, I have expressed some unease with certain protester actions. At the same time though, when one sees and hears (about) the actions of the police, especially over the past six months, it's really easy to understand why so many people have so much animosity against the police.
https://twitter.com/ajmm19923493/status/1204844353006395392
I totally agree with you. Police are people too and they are not the cause of the problem. The incompetent government is, not only are they hiding behind the police they are shifting the problem to the police.
It is high time we stop the violence from the protesters'side too, two wrongs dont make a right! We should be proud of peaceful marches and refrain from any verbal abuse.
C
YTSL, I quite agree with you.
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