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Brave boy rings alarm bell for all

Certainly, such selfishness is not to be blamed when a danger is involved, for anyone has the right to protect his/her own safety. But in the Peng case, the men on the bus should well have been moved into action for at least two reasons. First, a child was being tortured. Second, the danger to their own safety was not so serious, for so many men could well overpower the thief.

It is lamentable that we have become so cowardly in the face of criminals. Don't we feel ashamed thinking of the bravery of the boy? And what kind of a lesson do we expect our kids to draw from the case? Now educators tell children that they should not try to prevent a crime for it would bring dangers to them. This advice is right. But the problem in the above-mentioned case is not that of safety; instead, it is the imprint we adults have left in the heart of the boy - and all children - with our cowardice.

It will be a real danger for our society if cowardice prevails more and more over our righteous indignation at evils from one generation to the next.

Children's intrinsic and untainted sense of righteousness is precious. We should never do anything to hurt this feeling. Many adults, however, are ruining this innocent feeling with their dishonorable behaviors. An event reported by Shijiazhuang, Hebei province-based Yanzhao Evening News last month was such a scandal.

A 7-year-old boy picked up a coin of 10 fen (0.1 yuan) from the ground in a park. He went to the street outside the park and handed the coin to a traffic police officer. The man, however, threw the coin to the ground and went away, leaving the boy puzzled over what he had been taught by his teachers.