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A lack of education breeds apathy

In most such cases, old people hesitate to act because they are too weak to stop crime, but the only thing holding back younger people seems to be indifference.

Basically, I mean public ethics have deteriorated in our society. Except for a few exceptions, it is rare to see passersby rallying together to thwart street crime, which was common 20 or 30 years ago.

Admittedly, we have become more civilized after more than two decades of opening up to the outside world. We are more aware of human rights; we have learned to respect criminals' rights; and we have learned to put woolen knitwear on pet dogs in winter. Meanwhile, we have become blind to thieves snatching wallets from the people standing beside us on the bus and deaf to the cries for help that come from the shadows.

This apathy toward social evils is the result of a decline in moral education in schools and the encouragement of selfish individuality by the mass media and parents. Anyone who is not blind to facts and who is not biased will acknowledge this assumption.

Of course, we should not make it compulsory for members of the public to battle crimes on their own. That is the responsibility of the police, though their apparently soft approach to dealing with violent crime is partly to blame for the public's lack of desire to confront crime when they see it.