介绍:
In today's OU section, we'll take a look at what people are saying about a young Chinese man pleading a million yuan donation.
Mo Xiangsong, an undergraduate in Sichuan, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia late last year.
Born into a poor peasants' family, it's impossible for his parents to pay for the medical charges which amount to thousands of yuan at least.
And sadly, his time is running out.
As a result, he and his 14 classmates kneeled down in front of the building of a famous local enterprise in Sichuan, asking for a one-million-yuan donation from its boss.
(QD) Decent Gangster comments on news.sina.com,
His behavior is totally understandable. It's difficult for healthy people to understand what those suffering from fatal illness are thinking about. The fact is they're dying. And more importantly, they never want to die. In such conditions, it's quite natural for them to try every effort to sustain their life. That's why this boy was even willing to kneel down for more help.
(JA) Fairy You Guess says on njnews.com,
If I were the boss of that enterprise, I would hesitate to help him. There're too many people like him across the nation. If I helped him because he kneeled down in front of me, then there probably would be many more followers like him coming to me. Then I have to help them all. Philanthropy is out of one's free will. No one should force others to donate money.
(ZL) Angel Ying makes his advise on weibo.com,
Why not Mo Xiangsong tries his luck from Red Cross Society of China? As far as I know, that organization is very rich and it's a charitable organization in itself. So it should be the very right place where he should kneel down for help.
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(QD) Deer Laughs expresses his point of view on news.zj.com,
Some say he's begging for money. But I don't think so. Sometimes people have to make a choice between dignity and life. After all, life is above all. Only if he can live longer, kneeling down is not a big case at all.
(JA) On gx.people.com.cn, Yun Fengyang raises his doubts on China's social insurance system,
There must be something wrong with China's social insurance system. Yes, Mo Xiangsong's family is poor. But there're hundreds of millions of such kinds of families in China. His family cannot afford his medical expenses, so are the other poor families. He can kneel down in front of the rich, what about others? Should all people like him kneel down for help? That's not the right solution at all.
(ZL) Hu Guangwei from the Sichuan Academy of Social Science suggests on xinhuanet.com,
Why not China establishes some charitable foundations especially for the treatment of incurable diseases like blood cancer? In the status quo, social security can cover at most half of the medical expenses of these diseases. The other half have to be paid by the patients. But it's still a very heavy burden for most common citizens. If there were such kind of special foundations, then patients could apply for help directly from them, which would be much easier and better than kneeling down in front of others for help.
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