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According to reports, in Yangzhou, the owner of a stationery store suspected an eight-year-old girl of stealing something and pressed Youjia, the little girl's grandfather insisted on calling the police, and the police adjusted the monitoring to confirm that the little girl just took a white tape and looked at it and put it back in its original place. Under pressure from public opinion, the owner publicly apologized to the girl and the girl's family, and the stationery store has been closed.
Such an apology must be had, but the situation after the apology is still not tasteful. If it weren't for the little girl's grandfather insisting on defending his granddaughter's rights to the end, if it weren't for the surveillance camera as the final "witness", would the little girl's injustice still be easily washed away? In that case, it is likely to fall into the endless "Rashomon" of each saying his own words.
What is outrageous is that the shop owner used excessive words to the little girl: "Take it out, take it out quickly, hurry up, or I will show you the surveillance, if there is one, I will call the police." "Listen, a stationery store owner, how can there be a little Sven? As an adult, verbal threats to little girls, close to "forced confession", are too nonsensical and quite hateful. You can imagine what kind of shadow this will leave in the girl's heart.
What the shop owner said shows that he is not without a little common sense for specific incidents, otherwise he would not have thought of calling the monitoring to check, but why did he not even bother to check the monitoring and categorically determined that the little girl had committed theft? Of course, there are multiple reasons for this, for example, stationery stores may have frequently encountered theft, and the losses are not small, and stationery store owners are angry in the face of suspicious behavior; In "adjudication", the subjective consciousness of the parties overrides the objective consciousness, causing emotions to deviate, resulting in logical confusion. But in general, these factors are not enough to make her irrational and humanitarian, so much so that a young girl is "flogged" in order to intimidate a major theft case.
Originally, since the little girl's grandfather had given a strong rebuttal, as long as there was a little common sense and rationality, it should also be corrected immediately to prevent the incident from sliding into an uncontrollable situation. However, in the face of the anger of the little girl's grandfather, the shop owner was silent and did not say anything. This performance not only dilutes the meaning of the apology, but also points to a sobering fact: as a universal social psychology, the "market" of skepticism is deep.
For many, skepticism is justified. Considering that the target of suspicion is often dishonorable and illegal, and therefore such suspicion imposed on others is even noble, even if you accidentally hurt a good person, it is not a big deal. This is the biggest problem with this incident.
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It is not surprising that there are many shadows of doubt in the depths of human nature. After all, in many cases, skepticism also has some legitimacy. However, it should be noted that skepticism is accustomed to abandoning the process of seeking evidence, wrapped in illusions of morality and justice, wielding a stick to force others into a corner, and cannot be argued and resisted. Once this skepticism is directed at a child who does not know the world and lacks the ability to play, the result can be imagined.
Not long ago, there was a suffocating incident in Guizhou, where the owner of a stationery store insisted on an 11-year-old girl stealing without evidence, and even without communicating with the girl's parents, he arbitrarily typed all the girl's information into a large-character newspaper and posted it at the door, marked with the words "heavy reward, urgent search for people". The little girl finally chose to jump off the building to prove her innocence by dying.
We have known the value of a stationery store since childhood. Such a stationery store is often a "social observatory" that connects the campus and the community. It can be said that it is also a place for children to learn how to deal with the world. Isn't it sad that similar incidents are happening so often in such places? We believe that there will be procedural justice to check the handling of individual cases, but on the basis of individual cases, we really need to reflect deeply, find out the root cause of the problem, and then solve it in a targeted manner - if such incidents do not happen again, it is natural to hope that the quality of individuals will improve so that some people can maintain decency and decency in front of children, but obviously, this alone is not enough.
(Source: Chao News)