Blame

When the phrase of foul language broadcasted lively in TVB news, nobody would lodge a compliant on it - simply, it ventilated all our anger and disappointment, seeing the professional SWAT team in operation.

Apart from the word stone-aged, I cannot find another that could better be used in describing the entire rescue process. Going without helmets, staying in cross-fire positions, hammering windows with hostages inside. Gosh, for God's sake, if we were allowed to send our local team there, things can be solved in a much less sissy way.

But then, despite the burning anger, it may be wise for us to limit our blame. It is of no point - and so unfair - to turn a problem of country underdevelopment into racism. Extrapolating our hate in a single person (or the group of police) to the entire nation, only make us an even less socially civilized city. Moreover, when taking Philipines' baseline condition into account, our reaction might be a simple expection-reality mismatch - it is not an issue for us to be outrageous in, instead, we should feel pathetic for them.

I am not justifying the faulty rescue operation, but love and hate always come with a certain degree of rationality. Afterall, we are not mental terrorists.

Maybe its time to let our government do their work in blaming, and divert our emotions in praying and giving hands for the suffered ones.