mind your own business

Recently, a young adult was hacked to death by a gang. Apparently, it began just as a verbal conflict. I suppose he went to challenge the gang or the gang leader or something. If you ask me if I think he deserve it. I’ll say no. After all, no man deserve to die when he commit no crime. But did he ask for it? I don’t know. Maybe?

I thought one or two incidents like this once in a while will teach society to be more tolerant. It’s not too long ago I witnessed a rather violent fight. What began as just an almost innocent wrong like smoking in a no-smoking corner in a coffee-shop escalated into a scene in which three to four men threw chairs at a man because his wife refused to stop complaining loudly even know the one who was smoking stopped doing so. It’s almost a joke.

Sometimes, I think we should learn to just shut up and get on with life, and quit complaining for a while. It’s almost exasperating to see someone writing to the Straits Times Forum to complain about silly things, disappointing especially considering the average education level of our citizens. It’s as if we feel that providing a ‘feedback’ to the company is not enough, and we must do more to embarrass the company.

After this incident, maybe for another few years, people will think twice before picking up a fight again.