Just a few days ago, a major traffic accident occurred in Linyi, Shandong Province, a cab due to improper operation, directly into the traffic lanes of the morning walkers, ultimately leading to one death and two injuries the tragic results.
Then, the network began a heated discussion on the cause of the accident and responsibility: some people strongly accused of mobbing group members do not abide by the rules, was hit not aggrieved; some people once again come up with a "female driver" label, cherish life away from the female driver; and even the leader of the staff of the sentence also encountered a lot of accusations ......
The entire network of public opinion field presents "one-sided" trend, the The old man was also pushed to the tip of the wind and waves. As of the 16th, the microblogging topic #Driver hit the storm troopers# read close to 50 million, tens of thousands of netizens participated in the discussion.
In response to this incident, many media released related commentary articles, intergenerational differences, rules become hot key words. China Youth Daily pointed out that "many people think that the storm troopers are to blame, in fact, the fault is not the storm troopers, but the storm troopers lack of awareness of the rules"; "People's Daily warning! People's Daily warns against the intergenerational differences that reinforce the idea of a "car crash"; "New Beijing News is focused on the limited availability of public **** resources and the problem of uneven distribution.
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If the tragedy of the "storm troopers' car accident" can be explained by the lack of fitness space in the city, the storm troopers' upgrading of the road has been a foolish act of knowingly and blatantly challenging the law.
They want to be angry for their teammates, or they want to prove that they belong to the group's way of life, which is not wrong. But to use one's own life and the lives of others as a bargaining chip to blackmail the public's critical turn to gain a sense of accomplishment in a group victory is not only unsavory, but will lead to a more monstrous course of events.
The lesson of blood has not aroused the chronic pain of all people, media reports and public opinion if only stay in the dichotomy of what is right and what is wrong in the surface of the debate, rather than play a role in alerting the public, such a tragedy will happen again. To know, the rules can not always rely on tragedy to sound the alarm.
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Responsibility, in order to warn and constrain
In the event of the "storm troopers car accident" incident, the driver due to improper operation to hit the storm troopers, must bear the corresponding responsibility. However, we still need to see the responsibility of the mob and its organizers, which is the key to warn the public.
China's "Road Traffic Safety Law" Article 61 to 63 clearly stipulates -
"Pedestrians should walk in the sidewalks, there is no sidewalks by the side of the road walking ...... through no Pedestrians shall pass through intersections without traffic signals or pedestrian crossings, or cross roads on sections without crossing facilities, after confirming that it is safe to do so. Pedestrians shall not cross or lean on the road separation facilities, pickpocket cars, forcibly stop cars or commit other acts that impede road traffic safety."
We can see from the picture, the incident section of the road, although there is no sidewalk, but there is a hard shoulder on the left side, they did not "side" running, but walked loudly in the middle of the motorway, impeding road safety, should be responsible. The organizer of the storm walk team did not fulfill the obligation of security, should also bear the corresponding responsibility.
There is a saying, what occasion to do what kind of thing. The use of public **** resources must be used for its initial purpose, more than its limited scope of abuse and occupation is unreasonable, irregular.
It is because of the "mob car accident" responsibility is not clear, there are still members of the mob will be the reason for the tragedy of the female driver's improper operation, but often ignored their own problems. They do not realize that the act of "seizing the lane" itself is a confrontation of the rules, but rather a blurring of their own responsibility, thus eliminating the possibility of rationally restraining their behavior.
The dichotomy of what is right and what is wrong in an accident is nothing more than a battle of words. The responsibility of each subject, the use of punishment and discipline, in order to truly arouse the mob of each member of the "legal system" and "rules" identity, in order to achieve the purpose of warning the public.
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Lawlessness? Don't hold your breath
Despite the maelstrom of public opinion, condemning the elderly mob and criticizing the female driver's voice, such arguments only let public opinion hover over shallow judgments. Why does the mob walk again and again on the traffic lane? What kind of psychology is hidden behind them?
As early as last year, there have been media reports about the news that the storm troopers have taken to the traffic lanes, and this time, according to a report by the New Beijing News, a member of the storm troopers said that they have been occupying the traffic lanes like this for more than 10 days. What's more, another storm troop was still walking neatly in the traffic lane five days after the tragic car accident. All these details fully illustrate the fact that this association's storm troop is not the first time to violate traffic regulations, and the reason why so many people dare to openly challenge the regulations is that the law is not responsible for the natural outflow of the psychology of the masses.
"The law is not responsible for the masses" is people's habitual thinking, the so-called "law is not responsible for the masses" is people for the rules of consciousness of a kind of indifference attitude and fluke mentality , this kind of This mentality has become a refuge for people's misbehavior, using the group's effectiveness to alleviate the self-centered forgiveness of faults.
On the one hand, an individual's rational understanding is easily infected by group behavior. Lewin has put forward the "group dynamics theory", he believes that the group behavior can directly influence and constrain the individual behavior, the group implies and the group infection will make the individual fall into the irrational set of behaviors. For example, Chinese crossing the street is characterized by a distinctive group behavior, which produces an integrative effect both quantitatively and qualitatively - "If everyone else crosses the street, then I will cross the street too, and even if I am punished, I will still have the opportunity to do it together. " - it is this herd effect that makes every individual lose their sensible behavior.
On the other hand, the implementation of rules lacks internalization. Our social life is filled with all kinds of rules, and when the rules are in line with people's subjective wishes, people will naturally accept them and use them as a guideline to constrain their own behaviors, which is known as internalizability. However, for most people, the rules are just a written expression of words, and people can't physically feel the constraints of the rules, so generally speaking, people will put themselves in a "bystander" position, and the psychology of the law is not to blame will be exacerbated.
△ 2014, Qingdao, Shandong Province △
It is in the law is not responsible for the psychological drive, the storm group repeatedly on the traffic lane, they mentally implied that they: even if the law is illegal, it is also belongs to the *** with the law, if the punishment of one by one, the implementation of the cost will be greatly increased, affecting the efficiency of the community. If the law enforcement agencies in dealing with group violations of the law there is fear, or even fear of trouble, will undoubtedly let the law is not responsible for the mentality of the people triggered by the law of the broken window effect . In such a tried-and-true fluke, the mob such illegal behavior will be very difficult to eradicate.
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The "storm" counterbalance will only worsen public opinion
If the previous "storm troopers car accident" is reflected in the public **** resource allocation The first is that the car is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car, but a car that is not a car.
The event was dominated by the elderly, and because of the generational differences in the use of media, they could only sit back and wait in the face of surging public opinion on the Internet, and the accumulated dissatisfaction needed to be ventilated, which led to another offline gathering of the mob. "Storming" this way of expression of opinion, due to the seizure of the road public **** resources, itself is a kind of ill-considered behavior, to "storm" counterbalance will only make public opinion more deteriorated.
In the event of a car accident, who is more justified by the law to judge, as the saying goes, "there is no reason in the voice of the high", this unlawful way to express their views on the "violence" behavior will only make the mob groups are labeled as
In particular, the credibility of the elderly community has gradually declined after the "basketball court dispute", which is a very bad signal. The behavior of many elderly people has made public opinion produce a social impression of the old, such a crisis of confidence is very unfavorable to the construction of a harmonious society.
In the discussion of this matter, some people still attribute the problem to "old people being bad". However, in the opinion of the author, this matter cannot be attributed to the label "old man", and it can even be said that "bad old man" is a pseudo-issue in itself.
There is a fallacy in sociological research called "overgeneralization", and the inference that "the elderly have become bad" is due to the fact that the elderly are frequently exposed to defects. In the absence of scientific empirical research, all we can reliably conclude is that a some segment of society's elderly population has indeed been exposed to deficiencies in news stories, but these are not the only ones that can be labeled as ageist or ageist. Simply and crudely labeling them as ageist is never the way to solve social problems.