Justified

[jw5]

Nowadays, can we really get justice.

A woman sits on a public bus, a man comes and sits very close to her. She asks him to give her some space, he inches even closer. Then he hits her, while the passengers in the upper deck just watch. Only a 22 year old man from the lower deck comes to help her.

A local guy gets into a dispute with a Saudi Arabian diplomat over parking in restricted lots. Apparently a scuffle ensures. The guy is asked to resolve the matter privately. Or make a "magistrate's report". Apparently, the police will only get involved if elderly or young children are involved. So anyone who is not an elderly or a child cannot be assaulted or made a victim?

A cabbie and a newspaper editor are involved in road accidents with very similar circumstances. In both cases, a pedestrian died. But the punishment and the sentences seem to be very different.

Is it about time that some form of vigilante justice is enforced?
No violence, but only as a form of self defence if the "perp" gets violent first.
The word "perp" is short form for "perpetuator", which is commonly used in American police dramas, because these people who think they are above the law are effectively "perps".

Even in minor cases where scumbags put their feet on your chair in the cinema, cut their toenails in public transport, eat and drink merrily on public transport, behave like thugs, gangsters or spoilt brats in public places, just because they think they can get away with it or are not concerned about the fines.
Will taking them on if the authorities are not able or willing to, be considered "justified"?

As deputy marshall Raylan Givens said "He pulled, I shot him. It was justified."

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸。

 

[jw5]

杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸。

Sorry, my Chinese is very poor and I don't understand your comment.
Is there an "edge" to this post?

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

Yes it's edgy.

Sinkies and the PRCs in S'pore are losing it.

That explains a lot of the behaviours you mentioned.

A (small) price to pay by a society digitalised and monetized perhaps?

Sorry, my Chinese is very poor and I don't understand your comment.
Is there an "edge" to this post?

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

Let me try to translate for you:

杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸。

Kill people, commit arson wear golden belt; Build bridge, repair road, die liao left bone also don't have.

Sorry, my Chinese is very poor and I don't understand your comment.
Is there an "edge" to this post?

 

[jw5]

Let me try to translate for you:

杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸。

Kill people, commit arson wear golden belt; Build bridge, repair road, die liao left bone also don't have.

Actually I could figure out the direct translation despite my poor Chinese.
What I couldn't understand was the underlying meaning.
Let me try.
Is it like saying "One good turn doesn't deserve another" or "Hao xin mei hao bao"?
Or that people who do bad things end up getting rewarded and those who do good are easily forgotten?
Quite true actually.

 

[wuqi256]

杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸。

This quote reasonates a lot with me, this basically means the good dies abandoned in the wildness while the bad prospers. No good deed ever goes unpunished i guess while the evil lives on and continue to do evil.

This quote was made famous by my favourite movie, infernal affairs 2.
Maybe its karma but what if there wasn't karma as often you don't see any manifestation of any kind of effects on those propagating and doing evil. Death is the only ultimate equalizer but then it punishes all, good and bad, kind and cruel.

In time, i realised, there is no clear good or bad, thinking and rationalizing makes it so. Trying to explain certain behaviours or finding excuses for them will only make one suffer more. Either you do something about it or you have to let it go. Hatred causes suffering in a double pincer grip, he who the wrong was committed against suffers initially by the act and then gets continually tormented by hatred.

Whether or not the wrong doer is aware of his error or mistake is one thing but the torment one continually feels by the anger or sadness inside is perpetual even after the wrong is righted, the hollowness inside resounds.

On a lighter note, to quote my favourite "extreme" learned friend:

I am trying hard to let go and forgive all those who err and sinned against me but oh heavens above, do forgive me if i have to gleefully spray them with hot, hard FMJ lead, give me the serenity to see their life force bleeding away and lend me the strength to lift their bodies and throw them over a clift i pray.