Hi all,
Ethics (morals) is an essential formulation in all time which hold the power to shape attitudes and constraint ugly behavior. With ethics, humans are able to live in harmony, with productively and together in a place without conflicts.
Nihilism is is worse that fatalism. Fatalism believes that life equates 'zero'. Nihilism equates life 'less than zero' and 'pain'.
In Singapore today, majority of the younger generation have no or little ethics and many would agree with me if you have read what I wrote earlier in "Ugly... the younger generation is getting uglier... ". Many no longer can live in peace although we are a peaceful nation. The strife among the children are the fruits of the fathers'. If you work or have a friend who work in the police force, you will know the number of unreported cases of teenagers involved in gang fights, verbal abuse, underage sex, disrespectful of higher authority and even threatening went unheard by the public.
Lately, my dear friend who is a teacher was involved in a court case. His student, a girl, claimed that my friend molested her in the class infront of her classmates during a chemistry lab lesson. She went to report to her mother and then to the police. Thank goodness, the class stood up for my friend claiming that my friend did not even touch her. This girl was simply told to put on the apron during the lesson as just in case of a spill, she would be saved from it. She refused and revoked saying that the apron spoiled her appearance. As a teacher, he has to adhere to the rules in a chemistry lab lesson and so without the apron, the girl was told to leave the class. In a revengeful manner, she went to the extent to accuse the teacher molested her in class.
The above showed that the class of students still know what are morals. Whereas the girl, not alone, with a few others who were not as bold, refused to use an apron for such invalid reasons. Come on! This is not a beauty pageant show! It is chemistry lab lesson!
I was very happy when I was told that the class stood up for my friend but that few girls sure need to go for some morals lessons or extended counselling to get their lives ironed out. Get a life girls!
As days went by, I begin to feel the strife among the teens again. Many are hiding behind that nickname and posting what they would or maybe would not do as a person. Defaming, encourage boycotting, create nuisance, judgmental, quick to find fault, critical etc... are all the vices that we could see from certain forums. Why are these kids doing all these? They dont think anything before they speak. Think before you speak is not taught anymore...
Forums are all built for constructive reasons, to share, to help, to enchance, to improve etc. Instead of making use of such free services, they decided to vandalize' than learn. Is it true that teens are always rebellious and destructive? The answer is 'yes' to majority of us in Singapore. If we look around us, a lot of other forums from other countries which has high percentages of youth are very successful. I dont have to tell you why if you are a singaporeans too.
Life seems to be meaningless to our younger generations. I really dont blame them as the seniors are not standing out to quench this situation, instead, they decided to fall back and watch them self-destruct. I used to love a forum so much but as days go by, I could see alot of sensible seniors and youth, decided to leave the forum alone. Now, the forum is infested with immorals! Quick-to-judge, complaints without much sensible thinking, flaming etc... are found in almost every single thread. It is horrible to read on sometimes and you cant believe these 'rubbish' come from kids in secondary schools! Although some are still giving that place a chance, but their strength are weak. Including me. I am not so noble too, but I know I tried but what did I get in return? My contributions labeled as arts of 'Hao Lian'. My enthuism labeled as arts of 'kpo'. I dont want to go on anymore... it is so saddening each day when I visit the forum time and time again... The forum is now harvesting a bunch of barbarians in their youth!!!
I gave up but the day seems to brighten again when I found new love. So far so good. I hope and wish that this new nest will be a good place for 'breeding' morals. I treasure the youths that I come to know. I will do what I could within my limits to help, encourage, guide and foster a good relationship with them. I rather see them going fishing than spend too much time wandering around aimlessly. At least they get to focus on something and with right influence, I believe they would grow up as a man with ethics. Someone sent me a message and told me that I am poisoning alot of youth with my reports. Many want to pick up flyfishing too. I wish I could 'poison' them endlessly as flyfishing is a sports that not many could handle. It teaches us patience, conservation, appreciation and with the mentioned attributes, morals flow along too. Flyfishing is the cleanest form of sports fishing that anyone could find. Sadly but true, not all flyfishermen master the last part, morals.
I wonder, if that group of barbarians carry on influencing the rest of the people around, what would happen to this society? Fatalism and then Nihilism? Before these happen, I hope I could play a little part here to keep a few flames alive.
One day, when I have my own kids too, I am not going to spare that rod for sure. Perhaps what I am going through now is preparing me to be a father in the future.
"If you cant beat them, join them!"
NO WAY!
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