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Rape of human dignity

Listen to what a manager of the restaurant said: "Firing money into the air symbolized 'Heaven' showering luck" and was meant to create "an atmosphere of flourishing patronage".

This fully reveals the mentality of the restaurant's owners - they were the "Heaven" doling out alms to the public, who were merely stage props in a farce staged to gain business blessings.

In similar cases where people scramble for cheap handouts or loot goods from overturned vehicles (as in highway accidents), critics often accuse these people of coveting small gains and associate their behavior with the "low quality of civilization" among the Chinese populace.

These people are mostly common folk, who treasure every penny, given their poor livelihood. In fact, greed is a subconscious element in human nature. Are not business people greedy?

Their greed, once released unbridled, would go even farther than what the populace would demonstrate. The only difference is that common people's greed manifests itself at a superficial level while business people and corrupt officials hide their avarice deeper in their hearts and appease it in a wiser manner.

An ancient Chinese saying states: "All men love wealth but a civilized man obtains it through legal means and within moral limits." Common people involved in the two cases certainly need to improve their overall standards with regard to civilization. The business owners in the cases are more in need of moral revamping.