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Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue
Bibek Paudel writes "Over the past few weeks Chinese bloggers and people on Internet forums have been reacting to events in Tibet and the protests disrupting the torch relay. The BBC and Global Voices have interesting insights on the recent happenings on the Net. A western commentator says, 'Lots of Chinese people now view the Western media, human rights groups, and Western leaders' criticisms of their country as part of the Racist Western Conspiracy to Stop China From Being Successful.' One of the most vocal appeals by the Chinese blogs, forums, and text-messages has been to boycott French goods in response to the protests that accompanied the torch relay in Paris. One response post reads, 'Who is abusing human rights? Who is bringing violence to this world?' There also are two versions of music video of the song Don't Be Too CNN, and its lyric has assumed the status of a cult catch-phrase. Sina.com has a popular page: 'Don't be too CNN, fire to the Western media.' Many analysts believe that the protests over Tibet have only served to strengthen Chinese nationalism rather than evoke sympathy for the Tibetan cause. Sina.com has a petition against the Western media which has reportedly accumulated millions of signatures. There is also Mutant Palm, a blog by an expatriate in China who has been watching and commenting on the fallout from Tibet and torch protests online."
Deal with it.
I agree that China deserves criticism; however, don't get your politics mixed up with your philosophy.
Moral relativism is a fact of life. There is no ultimate moral law that everyone agrees on, because there is no ultimate moral *lawgiver* legislate moral law.
The world doesn't care if you get murdered, eaten, or whatever. If it happens, the only thing that can saw whether it was good or bad are humans, and probably not everyone will agree. Obviously, whoever kills you isn't going to think it's a bad thing.
The canonical example is the value system relationship between predator and prey. A lamb, if it could think, would think that wolves are evil, and that sheep, not doing evil things like eating sheep, are good. A wolf on the other hand thinks that sheep are delicious, and doesn't consider itself evil anymore than I consider myself evil when I eat a hamburger. The world itself doesn't give a damn either way.
I'm not saying that *you* have to agree or even *respect* someone else's values, but I'm saying that *they exist*. You have the right to say those values are stupid, but if you fail to acknowledge that some people think differently from you, you are just sticking your head in the ground and acting like an idiot.