Five people dead. One severely burnt.
The Tanjong Pagar car crash was the news that most of us were talking about this Chinese New Year.
An absolute tragedy. The story of the fiancee risking her life to save her beau was poignant.
In real life, we would offer our condolences and prayers. Perhaps due to the speed at which the internet has taken over our lives that we haven’t had time to establish social decorum, the comments on the internet were nasty.
“They deserve it”, “another BMW driver”, “serves them right” — these are just some of the milder comments online on this incident.
Come on, no one deserves to die. At least it is not our prerogative to decide if someone deserves to.
We don’t even know them.
.......We often do not know the full story.
We do not know the people involved. When we are merely watching from the sidelines, it is always easier to judge.
Perhaps, the rule of thumb should be: If we are not going to say it to the face of the person involved or if we would not like to be at the receiving end of this comment, we probably should not have said it. Or rather, think before we type.
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