A selfless act from pair who have nothing_其他

A selfless act from pair who have nothing

What is more commendable is their refusal of the cash award and later their donation of the money to support education.

Considering these are two poor men who could legitimately use the money, this is a startling and refreshing insight into what people, at their core, can be really like.

The two were scrap collectors. Every day, they got up at 4 am and went home well after 10 in the evening. They were typical examples of those struggling for a meager livelihood at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.

Their behavior dwarfs anyone who sits behind the wheel of a BMW or Lexus who abuses and bullies country folks in their way, as is often seen in urban streets. There have been hundreds of media reports of such outrages, most serious of which was the humiliation and affliction of a sanitation worker by a luxury sedan driver, a private entrepreneur, reported in this column on February 14.

In today's society, kind-heartedness and sympathy for the miserable are still the dominant values in human relations. But there are indeed some phenomena contradictory to these good traditions. For instance, there have been reports of passers-by looking on apathetically while street thugs stabbed someone to death or serious injury; and that hundreds of villagers engaged in mass looting of unattended public or private properties (as in a case in Nanjing reported the day before yesterday).