What is the most important for this era full of substances? Spiritual culture and morality construction are the answers without doubt.
Zhu Junwei behaved bravely to stop thieves in the public bus but was revenged and hit by the thieves. Witnessing this condition, no passengers in the bus stood out to stop the thieves. After its publicity, a hot discussion arose in Chenzhou city. Such similar situations happened in other cities, and will happen again… People were moved by Zhu Junwei’s courage; meanwhile they chose to keep silence when facing this situation. What would we draw from these cases? We should not just compare or judge the different behaviors, but consider how to establish a suitable mechanism to keep this good Samaritan and other social virtues in this new era. What is Samaritan? It means doing boldly what is righteous, being zealous in doing what is righteous in seeing it; ready to help others for a just cause.
Morality guides people’s lives and behaviors. An important feature of morality is that it serves as a guide for people’s actions. Because of this, it is necessary to point out that moral judgments are made about those actions which involve choice. It is not just a personal performance but also related to public social interests. As for the good Samaritan, it is significant to propel social justice and harmonious development. It should be upgraded to Chenzhou city’s spirit by personal behaviors and social mechanisms.
It was believed in public management theory that in a sound mechanism, good persons can behave like they can while bad persons cannot even do evil. This theory requires us to integrate the social resources and scientifically use it to solve the problems between individuals and departments, creating a good mechanism for people to behave themselves.
The key point of advocating good Samaritan is to combine spiritual and substantial praises together. The propaganda mechanism should be built for popularizing the good Samaritan with good examples and guidance to the public. Good public opinions should be created to call on social people to take part in raising the fund for good Samaritan and improve it as a social commonweal.
Incentive mechanism should be established for good Samaritan to encourage more people to involve in fighting illegal behaviors. The mechanism includes special funds to reward the good Samaritan behaviors, and medical treatment and poverty relief system for the heroes to minimize their risk in doing the good.
One French scholar said: “Laws and regulations confirm a society’s customs and virtues.” Relative laws and regulations should be drawn up to guarantee good Samaritan’s legitimate rights. Supervision mechanism should be built to cover more people and departments involved into this system, preventing the illegal actions from public and encouraging people to stand out to protect and maintain social safety and harmony.
We are looking forward to a new Chenzhou with good Samaritan spirit.