Don't just be angry and silent!

(Baonghean) - In every society, from countries with civilized industry to developing countries. I have heard, watched and seen injustices or cruelty happening every day.

A child is tortured, a black man is stoned to death, a Vietnamese student is raped by skinheads in Russia, an animal is beaten, a person is humiliated... Or simply like people do not give others what they are entitled to from God, and from human rights.

The question that always lingers in my mind is: Do I have the right and the obligation to intervene in the cruel injustices I see? To speak up, or to accept the thankless role of intervening in the fates of strangers I do not know? Should I go on, with a guilty conscience, but without injury?

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Then I realized that I have the right to intervene in the affairs of strangers and of society, when I am alone, when I am aware of injustice, suffering, humiliation and cruelty. I have seen many people angry about injustice on the streets, on Facebook, but then they push the help to others.

They just get angry for fun, and sometimes they get angry as a way to relieve stress. They get mad when a child is being abused, but they don’t intervene, they call the police or point it out to others. They just want to play the role of a middleman, someone who deceives themselves and those around them.

If you demand freedom and democracy, do you really understand freedom and democracy? As you understand the pain and humiliation you have experienced, then from your heart, your help is valuable.

When you wipe away the tears from the face of a child, alleviate the fate of a wounded animal, when you give money, with your own money, to a poor person, when you give clothes to the ragged, or by some advice and action, you yourself alone - only then - have the right to intervene.

All those who, when faced with misfortune, injustice, lack of democracy, lack of fairness... only get angry and stay silent, only get angry and call others, only dare to report to the police, only know how to curse on Facebook, only silently take pictures to post in newspapers, only know how to call for donations for the victims, in short, take on a certain role for themselves, from the misery they see, those people are all suspicious.

The pain, the misery, the loss of freedom, the injustice that you see are first and foremost from the perspective of an individual, so the first help and struggle can only start from each person himself. Anything else that ignores these first feelings, in my opinion, is fake.

Dang Tieu