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Re: crazy taxi driver!!!
actually whenever i hear complain stories about taxi drivers i will invariably hear the "it's their ricebowl leh" mitigating plea feedback from others.
in my opinion this ricebowl argument is completely flawed. If it's their ricebowl all the more they should be careful about it, be more conscientious about it, be more safety conscious about their actions, shouldnt they?
You dont hear a vacuum cleaner salesman go all around the estate bothering residents, be rude to people around him, behave like a total jerk during his working hours, and when people want to complain to his company about his actions, he plead.. "dont lah, it's my ricebowl leh". absurd isnt it.
Everybody has their rights, and their freedom of expression. A taxi driver has every right to CHOOSE to be a jerk on the road, to tailgate, to roadhog, to swerve abruptly, to jam brake suddenly, to change lane suddenly without signal, to cover up the legitimate car space by speeding up when you signal your intention to switch lane.... It's his complete right to choose to do this as a human being.
But if he consciously chooses to behave this way, then he must be prepared for natural consequences that follow. No such thing as "please lah it's my ricebowl" shite.
It's exactly the same mentality for any pedestrian that CHOOSES to jaywalk. He must be mentally prepared to die in the process. Have you seen jaywalkers to raise their hands up to "scold" you after you narrowly miss hitting them? Don't they realise they are jaywalking in the first place? Havent they mentally prepared themselves that they may die by their own choice? What's up with normal, intelligent, mature, adult thinking process that's crucially absent in selfish singaporeans nowadays.
Taxi-driver's ricebowls? It's up to them to protect it. It's not MY ricebowl! these punanis.....
what do you guys think?
actually whenever i hear complain stories about taxi drivers i will invariably hear the "it's their ricebowl leh" mitigating plea feedback from others.
in my opinion this ricebowl argument is completely flawed. If it's their ricebowl all the more they should be careful about it, be more conscientious about it, be more safety conscious about their actions, shouldnt they?
You dont hear a vacuum cleaner salesman go all around the estate bothering residents, be rude to people around him, behave like a total jerk during his working hours, and when people want to complain to his company about his actions, he plead.. "dont lah, it's my ricebowl leh". absurd isnt it.
Everybody has their rights, and their freedom of expression. A taxi driver has every right to CHOOSE to be a jerk on the road, to tailgate, to roadhog, to swerve abruptly, to jam brake suddenly, to change lane suddenly without signal, to cover up the legitimate car space by speeding up when you signal your intention to switch lane.... It's his complete right to choose to do this as a human being.
But if he consciously chooses to behave this way, then he must be prepared for natural consequences that follow. No such thing as "please lah it's my ricebowl" shite.
It's exactly the same mentality for any pedestrian that CHOOSES to jaywalk. He must be mentally prepared to die in the process. Have you seen jaywalkers to raise their hands up to "scold" you after you narrowly miss hitting them? Don't they realise they are jaywalking in the first place? Havent they mentally prepared themselves that they may die by their own choice? What's up with normal, intelligent, mature, adult thinking process that's crucially absent in selfish singaporeans nowadays.
Taxi-driver's ricebowls? It's up to them to protect it. It's not MY ricebowl! these punanis.....
what do you guys think?
