Toxic

“Words don't cost money/ Choose your words carefully to please… voters”

That is the 4.0 version of the folk song that a part of the delegates silently memorized. The heat or coolness of public opinion sometimes depends a lot on the actions of politicians, most of which are conveyed through the gateway of language.

Perhaps no keyword in the past week was big enough to surpass the word lu. A statement by an elected official about the solution to the problem has sparked a fury about the capacity of representatives and even the quality of degrees.

Netizens have too many reasons and endless emotions to exploit the full capacity of the keyboard. If that were the statement of a motorbike taxi driver at a village meeting, it might be different. While pouring thousands of billions without solving any problem, using jars, bowls, or even cans to prevent flooding is still more beneficial to the country and the people, at least it is not as harmful.

The story is that the proposal did not come from a mind with a common mentality, but was a speech by an Associate Professor at a city-level conference. The owner of this unique idea later explained that this was not her own idea but a product that had been put into practice in Japan. As for the jar, it is a popular saying, it is a wonderful combination of human scientific achievements with a thousand-year-old ceramic tradition to "promote the rich national identity". Needless to say, netizens cursed each other. After using prose, people turned to poetry, after poetry, they turned to photos, after photos, they even made music. People even dug up her private life, blood relations, and even extracted her academic degrees to mock her. Poor her.

A calm person would blame her for not researching thoroughly before making the suggestion. In foreign countries, people use flood tanks as a form of water circulation regulation. When it rains heavily, water flows into the tank, they only temporarily hold it here, after the flood is over, people pump it out to the drainage system to prepare for the next storage, this is exactly a collection tank. But Ms. Dinh's tiny, cute jar is different (from a dynamic state to a static state). Could it be that yesterday the jar was full of rain, and today it rains "second time" and has to be boiled and drunk to make room for another layer? That's not to mention high tides, could it be that they use a ladle to scoop water into the jar to prevent flooding? The use of regulating tanks has been applied in many places around the world. But the idea of ​​mobilizing jars for combined use in daily life is truly unique. As for netizens, they can't control their emotions, and are drawn in by the crowd, so their words are too much! And her threat to use the Cyber ​​Security Law to “control” public opinion is truly unique!

Speaking of the word “poison”, let me say a few words about this word. Poison is something that can harm health or kill living things (poison). The word “poison” can also refer to a type of personality, behavior or human behavior (malicious, evil). The most common use of the word “poison” is to mean “unique”!

A Buddhist doctor who is the abbot of two temples has just been arrested for raping a 14-year-old girl. That is cruel. The fact that electricity and water prices are so volatile is an inevitable consequence of monopoly. And those officials who say they don’t know about their children’s score increases are just being mean-spirited. To society, they are… toxic!

When I was in high school, my class had a friend named Hung who was a real troublemaker. Hung was the ringleader of all the mischief, even the "boss" not only in the class but also in the school. The homeroom teacher cried more than once because of Hung, and after many times of being helpless with the bad student, she asked to change classes to avoid the "boss". The school assigned a new homeroom teacher. On the first day of class activities, the young teacher said, "Who is Hung?" The whole class turned their eyes to the last table where the "boss" was sitting tearing paper to wrap firecrackers. "Hung, please stand up?" It was the first time Hung obeyed her and stood up. "Thank you, please sit down." Then she continued, "Like this, I see Hung sitting at the last table, convenient for observing, Hung is also very interested in by the other students in the class. So I assigned Hung to be the class vice-president, in charge of the arts and classroom discipline. What do you think, everyone in the class?" Without anyone saying anything, there was a burst of applause. So from then on Hung changed. Last year, on the occasion of November 20, as usual, Hung and I visited my old teacher. Recalling the old story, she said, "If we hadn't played the card game of fighting poison with poison, I'm sure you wouldn't have remembered to visit me today."

So, there are things that are very poisonous but also very precious. Arsenic is a carcinogen, but arsenic itself not only cures syphilis but is also used in combination to treat a rare type of cancer (acute primary leukemia). Cobra venom is extremely poisonous, but it is snake venom that is the savior for 150 million arthritis patients around the world. Even the legendary killer plant called Aconite. Last year, Aconite, which was already famous for thousands of sad love stories, suddenly became famous in a heartbreaking way because a delegate proposed using Aconite to carry out death sentences instead of expensive lethal injections! It is so poisonous that it was dragged into the parliament, but hearing that Aconite is a medicine to treat boils is shocking....

Remembering the saying “Misfortunes never come singly, happiness never comes twice”, the fable about the jar had not yet cooled down when this delegate immediately continued to heat up the online community for the second time by proposing to use tough measures to “send” immigrants in Ho Chi Minh City back home. With the musical simile “Em oi do thanh gio gio anh song khong quen” she officially became a “public figure”. Laughing to death! Just by doing this, she deserves to be an artist in adding fuel to the fire. Netizens thanked her for her “American-style” proposal! Without that strong statement, how many people would have known that the female delegate was born in Cambodia and grew up in the countryside… in the west! A rather poisonous act of pursuing relatives. If this case had fallen into the hands of my former homeroom teacher, who knows, the delegate might have been appointed as “deputy class leader in charge of immigration issues”.

It is also medicine, but tonics taken for a month may not be effective, while poison only needs a little bit to be "returned to its final resting place"! Adding a little bit of goodness to life is sometimes harder than doing the opposite. At first, thinking about the can or the jar is just a reflux in the process of digesting information, then everything will be calm again. Perhaps we need to get used to the difference, even the abnormality, although in our country it is still very rare. "Following the beaten path is the job of sheep" humanity would not be like today without independent research ideas, even crazy and being chased away.

But to “grab” an achievement, humanity has also had to go through countless other crazy and useless ideas. Not every different thought is successful, but not every crazy idea is a waste. Respecting that difference is the request of the development process. You may not love it, but please don’t throw it away, at least don’t say mean things to it!