Theo gương 'tôn trọng nhân quyền' kiểu Mỹ

Lần sau VN xử Ô. Ng V Lý (chắc chắn có nếu thả ông này ra) thì nên bắt chước nước Mỹ tôn trọng nhân quyền bằng cách xử dụng stun gun như cảnh sát Mỹ. Nói ngọt 0 nghe thì giựt cho nó trợn mắt sùi bọt mép ra chết tươi cho đỡ nhọc, bịt miệng làm gì cho người ta lên án là 0 biết tôn trọng nhân quyền?

Death raises questions about stun guns

By MURRAY EVANS, Associated Press Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman confronted by police outside a homeless shelter is the latest example of someone who died after being shocked with a Taser, an electric stun gun designed to help officers subdue violent suspects without nightsticks or guns.
But in Milisha Thompson's case, she was already on the ground and in handcuffs. Her death has raised questions about whether police are abusing the stun guns by using them as a convenient labor-saving device to control uncooperative people.
"It's a legitimate law-enforcement tool," said Florida State University criminology professor George Kirkham, a former police officer. "But it's supposed to be used as a defensive weapon. The problem we're seeing around the country is it's being used abusively."
Amnesty International USA, which has done a study on Taser use, has counted 250 cases in which people died after being stunned with a Taser. The human rights organization cannot say whether the shock from a Taser actually caused those deaths. But some experts contend the weapon can be deadly, particularly when used on suspects who use drugs or suffer from heart problems.
A blurry surveillance video shows Thompson running near the homeless shelter, seemingly agitated. The picture is poor, so exactly what happens next is unclear, but at some point she struggles with officers and is shocked.
Thompson, 35, soon stopped breathing. The cause of her May 19 death has not been determined, pending results of toxicology tests.
Police Chief Bill Citty insisted officers acted appropriately because the 6-foot, 260-pound Thompson was kicking and posed a danger, even though her hands were shackled.
Kirkham said only in rare circumstances would it be appropriate to use a Taser on a handcuffed person. If officers have problems with a handcuffed suspect, a better approach would be to bind the suspect's legs, he said.
Tasers have been officially listed as a contributing factor in about 12 deaths nationwide, said Steve Tuttle, a spokesman for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International Inc., which makes the weapon. He said 11,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies use Tasers.
The company has prevailed in all 45 wrongful-death or injury cases in which it has been a defendant, Tuttle said.
Taser International and police say that no weapon is risk-free and that Tasers actually save lives by helping officers avoid more dangerous weapons.
Over the past two years, Tasers have been used on people in handcuffs in Colonial Beach, Va.; Austin, Texas; Pensacola, Fla.; and Lorain, Ohio, though none of those cases involved deaths.
In the Virginia case, federal civil-rights charges were filed against the two officers involved, but a judge exonerated both. In Pensacola, a fired sheriff's deputy was cleared of wrongdoing last month but was not given his job back. In Ohio, the officer involved was reinstated. In Austin, two officers were acquitted of official oppression.
In response to such complaints, some police departments have prohibited the use of Tasers on handcuffed suspects.
In Oklahoma City, the police chief said, two officers were investigating a report of drug activity near the homeless shelter when they encountered Thompson. She ran up to the officers twice and was being disruptive, so police put her in handcuffs, Citty said.
Citty said Thompson continued to be combative, so officers used the Taser. She was on the ground when an officer tried five times to shock her, stunning her twice in the neck, Citty said.
Her husband, Marvell Thompson, disputes the police report and contends his wife was shocked 20 times. "They did use excessive force on my wife," he said.
Mike Gassaway, an attorney for Thompson's estate, said Thompson and her husband worked at the shelter, called the City Rescue Mission.
He said she ran toward officers because she had found a crack pipe and wanted to give it to them. Gassaway said they overreacted and used the Taser after having trouble getting Thompson in the patrol car.
"There were a substantial amount of people there, and we surmise the police wanted to give them a show of force," Gassaway said. "So they simply used Mrs. Thompson as their example of what would happen to other people."
Thompson's family has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against Oklahoma City, accusing the police of excessive force and failure to train officers properly.
"The Taser should not be used at all, especially on women," Marvell Thompson said. "There are other ways to control people."

British Parliament rejects Iraq inquiry

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 11, 4:33 PM ET

LONDON - The House of Commons on Monday rejected a motion by the opposition Conservative Party calling for a formal inquiry into the British government's decision to go to war in Iraq.

On a 288-253 vote, the lower house of Parliament sided with Prime Minister Tony Blair, who ruled out such an inquiry now.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said the government's view was that "there would come a time when these issues will be explored," but she added that "it would be wrong to launch such an inquiry" while British troops are engaged in Iraq.

In a separate vote, lawmakers voted 274-229 to adopt a government resolution warning that an inquiry would divert attention from the vital task of improving conditions in Iraq.

Although the government defeated the inquiry motion as expected, the vote was closer than Labour's 61-seat majority, indicating some party members voted against Blair, who angered many in his party by joining in the war.

Blair gives up the premiership June 27 and will be replaced by Treasury chief Gordon Brown, who made a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday to study Britain's participation in the war and to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Liam Fox, the Conservative Party's defense spokesman, said before the inquiry vote that it was important to examine how British leaders decided whether to back the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

"We want the principle established that there must be an inquiry. It's about making sure we don't make the same mistakes again," said Fox, whose party at the time strongly supported Blair's decision.

In a key House of Commons debate on March 18, 2003, shortly before the war began, 90 percent of Conservative legislators voted for the invasion, compared to 62 percent of Labour members. All the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest party in the Commons, voted against.

The Conservatives' foreign affairs spokesman, William Hague, urged lawmakers to bow to the "gathering consensus" and hold an inquiry into the war, which has been very unpopular with the British public.

"This government and future governments need to learn the lessons and the country needs to be assured that they will have done so," he said.

Hague, who led the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001, spoke in favor of the invasion in the debate four years ago.

At that time, he said it was part of Britain's "national interest to act in concert with the United States of America in matters of world peace and stability."

Russia calls for new economic world order

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for the creation of a new world economic order that gives greater clout to fast-growing emerging nations.

Days after attending a Group of Eight summit in Germany, Putin suggested that club was outdated and failed to reflect a shift in economic power away from the industrialized West to countries like his own.

"If 50 years ago, 60 pct of the world's gross domestic product came from the G7, now it's the other way round, and 60 percent of the world's GDP is produced outside," Putin said in a speech to a major economic conference.

He also took aim at financial organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, saying they were created in "a completely different reality" and had lost relevance in the fast-changing global economy.

Russia is enjoying an unprecedented spell of economic growth that has enabled it to pay down its foreign debts and accumulate foreign exchange reserves of over $400 billion -- the world's third largest.

Putin said the world needed to reduce its dependency on the dollar as a reserve currency, and plugged the ruble as one alternative. Russia abolished capital controls last year.

"We need several financial centers and several reserve currencies," Putin told an audience of international chief executives and government leaders attending the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Putin declared Russia open to foreign investment, highlighting opportunities to invest in the power generation sector, now undergoing reforms to create market competition, and in infrastructure.

But he called for industrialized nations not to throw up barriers to Russian companies seeking to invest abroad.

"We see how in developed countries despite the doctrine of free investment there are completely different approaches," he said.

"It turns out that foreign investment is not always seen as positive and foreign participation is practically closed in those sectors such as infrastructure, telecoms and energy."

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Investigator: CIA ran secret prisons

By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

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PARIS - The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate detainees in its war on terror, European investigator Dick Marty said in a report released Friday. The report, citing unnamed CIA sources, said top terror suspects Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were secretly held and interrogated in Poland, and that the "highest state authorities" in countries involved knew of the alleged detention centers.
Sheikh Mohammed is the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Abu Zubaydah is a suspected senior al-Qaida operative.
Marty also accused Germany and Italy of obstructing his probe into the alleged secret detentions by the CIA.
The report said collaboration by U.S. allies was critical to the secret detention program, which took place in the framework of NATO's security policy. "The secret detention facilities in Europe were run directly and exclusively by the CIA," said the report. "While it is likely that very few people in the countries concerned, including in the governments themselves, knew of the existence of the centres, we have sufficient grounds to declare that the highest state authorities were aware of the CIA's illegal activities on their territories."
Poland and Romania hosted the prisons under a special post-Sept. 11 CIA program to "kill, capture and detain" so-called high value terrorist suspects, wrote Marty, a Swiss senator investigating the alleged role of Council of Europe states in the CIA program.
Evidence of secret flights — at least 10 flights to Poland between 2002 and 2005 — show the pivotal role played by Poland and Romania as drop-off points, the report says.
"There is now enough evidence to state that secret detention facilities run by the CIA did exist in Europe from 2003 to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania," the report said.
Jerzy Szmajdzinski, who served as Poland's defense minister from 2001-2005, sarcastically brushed aside the accusations.
"Of course, I organized everything and gave them a red-carpet welcome," said Szmajdzinski. He declined further comment, saying: "I don't deal with political fiction."
Romanian Senator Norica Nicolai, who headed an investigation for parliament into the allegations, rejected Marty's findings as "totally unfounded."
In Germany, government spokesman Thomas Steg strongly rejected the accusation that it hindered the probe.
"The government knows of media reports about apparent prisoner transports and secret prisons, but the government itself has no information on such transports and facilities," Steg said. "To date, Mr. Marty has in his other reports also failed to provide any evidence that was is alleged is actually true."
Steg said the government would examine the new report.
Marty did not name sources from his information, but said that the report was based on discussions with people "who had worked or still worked for the relevant authorities, in particular intelligence agencies."
"We have never based our conclusions on single statements and we have only used information that is confirmed by other, totally independent sources," the report said, adding that where possible information was "cross-checked" in the European countries in question, in the United States or through documents or data.
"Clearly, our individual sources were only willing to talk to us on the condition of absolute anonymity," the report said.
Last year, Marty accused 14 European nations — spanning a swath from Dublin to Berlin to Bucharest — of colluding with U.S. intelligence in a web of rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities.
Marty said evidence suggested that CIA-linked planes carrying terror suspects had landed at airports in Timisoara, Romania, and Szymany, Poland, and likely dropped off detainees there.
His second report confirms Szymany as a drop-off point in Poland, where at least 10 flights — six coming from Kabul, Afghanistan — landing there. The report lists eight of the CIA flights, with one each originating in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates and Rabat, Morocco, and says it can be "demonstrated" that the majority of them were "deliberately disguised."

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Teams mimic stem cells using skin cells

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

NEW YORK - In a leap forward for stem cell research, three independent teams of scientists reported Wednesday that they have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells without the controversial destruction of embryos.

If the same could be done with human skin cells — a big if — the procedure could lead to breakthrough medical treatments without the contentious ethical and political debates surrounding the use of embryos.

Experts were impressed by the achievement.

"I think it's one of the most exciting things that has come out about embryonic stem cells, period," said researcher Dr. Asa Abeliovich of Columbia University in New York, who didn't participate in the work. "It's very convincing that it's real."

But he and others cautioned that it will take further study to see whether this scientific advance can be harnessed for creating new human therapies. For one thing, the procedure used to get the mouse skin cells to mimic embryonic stem cells wouldn't be suitable. And it's simply not known whether the mouse results can be reproduced with human cells.

"We have a long way to go," said John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, a stem cell researcher who also wasn't involved in the new work.

In any case, scientists said, the advance does not mean that research that involves getting stem cells from human embryos should now be abandoned. "We simply don't know which approach ... will work the best," said researcher Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, who led one of the three teams.

Embryonic stem cells are prized because they can develop into all types of tissue. So experts believe they might be used for transplant therapies in people who are paralyzed or have illnesses ranging from diabetes to Parkinson's disease.

To harvest human embryonic stem cells, embryos must be destroyed, an action many people oppose.

Scientists have long hoped to find a way to reprogram ordinary body cells to act like stem cells, avoiding the use of embryos altogether. The new mouse studies seem to have accomplished that. Past experiments seeking alternative routes to getting stem cells have generally involved tampering with an embryo or egg.

At a press conference Wednesday, Hochedlinger and a member of a second team said their work was not an attempt to evade the ethical objections to embryo destruction. Instead, they said, the goal was to learn how cell reprogramming works.

But in a telephone interview, a prominent critic of embryonic stem cell research welcomed the new work on ethical terms.

"This is what we were looking for people to explore because it may provide all the advantages of embryonic stem cells without the moral problem," said Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of pro-life activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "So I'm very encouraged."

Hochedlinger and colleagues present their work in the inaugural issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell. (The first word in the journal's name refers to its publisher, Cell Press).

The other two teams reported their results Wednesday on the Web site of the journal Nature. Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., is the senior author of one paper, and the work behind the other paper was led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan.

The new work builds on a landmark paper Yamanaka published last August. He found that by slipping four genes into mouse skin cells called fibroblasts, he could make the altered cells behave much like embryonic stem cells in lab tests.

But these so-called "iPS" cells still showed significant differences from embryonic stem cells. The three new papers report on creating iPS cells that proved virtually identical to stem cells in a variety of lab tests.

The technique used in the mouse studies could promote cancer in any patients getting therapy based on iPS cells, so researchers emphasized that a new approach that avoids that hazard would have to be developed.

Gearhart called that a major issue to be resolved. In addition, he said, scientists still must show that these cells can give rise to many cell types in the lab, as embryonic stem cells can.

And all this must be accomplished in human cells — a difficult task, he said, because introducing genes into human cells is a major challenge.

If the technique can be harnessed for people, the iPS cells and the tissue they develop into would provide a genetic match to the person who donated the skin cells. That would make them suitable for transplant to that person, theoretically without fear of rejection.

Putin told the naked truth

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Putin attacks West ahead of G-8 summit

By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Write Mon Jun 4, 3:44 PM ET

MOSCOW - President

Vladimir Putin

called himself the world's only "absolute and pure democrat" in an interview published Monday, and launched scathing attacks on the U.S. and Europe ahead of this week's Group of Eight summit.

At the same time, the 54-year-old Putin hinted that he may not be ready to leave the public stage after all when his second term expires next year. "I am far from pension age and it would be absurd just to sit at home doing nothing," he told a group of reporters invited to dinner over the weekend.

Despite Russia's agreement last month to tone down the rhetoric, Putin's statements exposed vast gaps between Russia and the West ahead of this week's Group of Eight summit. He called Britain's decision to demand the extradition of the man suspected of killing former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive poison an act of "stupidity."

The interview touched on much that the rest of the world finds disturbing about Putin's Russia: the backsliding on democracy, the increasing assertion of military power, the general perception of a leader who feels immune to international criticism.

To the many Westerners who say he has rolled back Russia's democratic reforms, Putin responded with the startling assertion that he is the world's one true champion of democracy.

"I am an absolute and pure democrat," Putin said. "But you know what the misfortune is? Not even a misfortune but a real tragedy? It's that I am alone, there simply aren't others like this in the world."

The transcript noted that Putin laughed when making that comment, suggesting he was joking. A few moments later he added: "After the death of Mahatma Gandhi, there's nobody to talk to."

Sandwiched between his acid criticisms and ironic assertions was a brief but brutal criticism of the West.

"We look at what has been created in North America — horror: torture, homelessness, Guantanamo, detention without courts or investigation," he said.

"You see what's going on in Europe: harsh treatment of demonstrators, the use of rubber bullets, tear gas in one capital, the killing of demonstrators in the streets in another," he added, in an apparent reference to the death of an ethnic Russian in the Estonian capital during protests over the removal of a Soviet-era war memorial.

Rather than try to soothe nerves before the G-8 summit in Germany, Putin repeated, and even amplified, recent Kremlin criticism of the United States — including his allegation in February that the United States was engaging in a "hyper-use of power," and Russian officials' denunciation of purported Western attempts to destabilize Russia by funding pro-democracy groups.

The Russian president's comments came despite last month's agreement between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to tone down the rhetoric on both sides.

Much of the toughest talk from the Kremlin has focused on U.S. plans to build a missile-defense system in Europe, which Washington insists is aimed at preventing attacks by rogue states such as Iran and North Korea rather than Russia.

Putin renewed the verbal offensive in his weekend interview, in chilling comments that evoked the balance-of-terror language of the Cold War.

"We are being told the anti-missile defense system is targeted against something that does not exist. Doesn't it seem funny to you, to say the least?" a clearly irritated Putin said.

"If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response," Putin said. "What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe."

These could be targeted with "ballistic or cruise missiles or maybe a completely new system."

National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, asked aboard Air Force One about Putin's comments on the missile shield, said there has been "some escalation in the rhetoric."

"We think that that is not helpful. We would like to have a constructive dialogue with Russia on this issue. We have had it in the past," Hadley said.

Russia's relations with the West also are troubled by its refusal to turn over Andrei Lugovoi, the man whom Britain says it has enough evidence to charge in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. The case raised fears that Moscow has returned to its Soviet-era practice of killing dissidents abroad.

Russia refuses to turn over Lugovoi, saying its constitution forbids extradition of Russian citizens to face prosecution abroad. Putin called Britain's demand "stupidity."

"If they didn't know (about the constitutional prohibition) it's a low level of competence and thus we have doubts about what they're doing there," Putin said. "And if they knew and did this, it's simply politics.

"This is bad and that is bad — from all sides it's just stupidity," Putin said.

Putin, less than a year away from the end of his second and final four-year term in office, told reporters he believes Russian presidents should serve longer terms. But he did not say whether he believes his current term should be extended.

Over the years, he has consistently rejected suggestions that the constitution be amended to allow him to seek a third consecutive term, and during his annual address to parliament in April said it would be his last as president.

But Putin's ambiguous comments seemed certain to feed speculation that he would seek to stay in power beyond the spring of 2008. At the very least, his suggestion could discourage other G-8 leaders from treating him as a lame duck.

"Four years is a fairly short time," Putin said. "It seems to me that in today's Russia five, six or seven years would be acceptable, but the number of terms still should be limited."

Russia is scheduled to hold presidential elections in March. Putin, who was re-elected in 2004 with more than 71 percent of the vote, has presided over one of the most prosperous periods in Russian history and enjoys sky-high approval ratings.

Putin has not publicly said whom he would prefer to see succeed him — an endorsement that would carry immense influence, since that candidate could instantly expect the support of the Kremlin and its allies.

Some leaders in post-Soviet states have called referendums to approve extension of their terms. But these moves have been widely criticized abroad as naked power-grabs.

While Putin seems increasingly to scorn his Western critics, the move would create an uproar that he might not want to face.

Lưu Mạnh Khôi - Vật Chất và Hạnh Phúc

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Một cái nhìn về vụ Thảm sát Sinh viên ở Mỹ Lưu Mạnh Khôi đăng ngày 13/05/2007

Hạnh phúc từ thương yêu, hạnh phúc không lấy từ vật chất…Làm sao để con người khi giải quyết vấn đề đều bắt đầu từ tình thương, sự hiểu biết... Những ngày qua không chỉ có báo chí Mỹ mà báo chí của nhiều nước trên thế giới đã đưa tin, bày tỏ sự đau xót trước vụ thảm sát cùng một lúc chết 33 người (kể cả hung thủ). Lí do phẫn nộ và đáng kinh ngạc là vụ thảm sát diễn ra ngay trong trường học - một môi trường nhân văn, đào tạo con người và người thủ ác lại chính là sinh viên. Một hành động đầy bạo động, và ở một khía cạnh tâm lí, y học cho rằng do bệnh lí tâm thần hoặc do chủ nghĩa vị kỉ, cá nhân! Tôi cũng đồng tình với quan điểm này, sinh viên 23 tuổi người Hàn Quốc Cho Seung Hui đã thể hiện sự bất bình trước thế giới mà anh ta đang sống một cách mù quáng, điên rồ và anh ta cảm thấy đau khổ, thất vọng. Sau đó, trong suy nghĩ Cho hình thành tính cách lầm lì, phản kháng, muốn tiêu diệt nó. Lại một lần nữa dư luận lại đặt ra một câu hỏi rằng "Xã hội Mỹ nói riêng và xã hội ở những đất nước phát triển, giàu có như Âu châu liệu đã mang đến hạnh phúc cho con người?". Nếu vật chất, sự phồn hoa, hưởng thụ những khoái lạc mang lại hạnh phúc cho con người thì tại sao số người (đặc biệt là người trẻ) lại tự tử nhiều đến thế, tại sao họ lại luôn bạo động? Câu hỏi đặt ra và ngấp nghé một lời giải thích hùng hồn từ thực tế khách quan đang hiện hữu ở chính xã hội được đề cao tự do cá nhân, giàu có đó rằng: những giá trị vật chất chưa đủ mang đến cho con người hạnh phúc. Có thể sự tôn trọng giá trị vật chất đang làm cho con người trở nên ích kỷ hơn và đến một lúc họ trở nên ích kỷ tột độ và kết thúc là phản kháng theo cái kiểu "xã hội đen" mang màu sắc bạo lực, dã man như hành động của sinh viên Cho trong vụ thảm sát vừa rồi. Vấn đề tiếp tục được đặt ra cho những nhà tâm lí, những nhà xã hội học, truyền thông, nhân học rằng "Đâu là gốc của hạnh phúc, đâu là đường hướng giáo dục, tuyên truyền để bồi dưỡng nhân cách cho con người?". Với tôi, gốc rễ sâu xa của hạnh phúc bắt đầu từ tâm hồn và lối sống của mỗi người. Chủ nghĩa cá nhân phải có nhưng không nên tôn sùng nó như một cách để tự khẳng định mình. Nếu anh biết yêu cộng đồng và những người xung quanh sau khi yêu bản thân mình thì hẳn nhiên anh sẽ không nỡ xuống tay phá hoại sự bình yên và kết cấu của xã hội anh đang sống. Nuôi dưỡng hạnh phúc ở trong chính mỗi con người chính là làm sao để họ cảm thấy thương yêu là hạnh phúc chứ không phải được cung phụng, được thụ hưởng, được thỏa mãn nhu cầu cá nhân. Nhìn từ xã hội Mỹ, xã hội Âu châu mà tôi cảm thấy lo lo, bởi những người trẻ phương Đông trong đó có Việt Nam hình như đang học đòi lối sống ấy. Kiếm tiền, thụ hưởng và theo cá nhân chủ nghĩa, điều đó tôi không lên án hay phản bác đúng - sai, bởi cái gì cũng có hai mặt của nó. Tất cả những điều đó không có tội tình gì nếu chúng ta không lạm dụng và nâng nó lên mức chân lý cho sự phát triển và hạnh phúc. Người ta vẫn chê người Việt Nam sao có vẻ thiếu tính cá nhân, quá thiên về lối sống cộng đồng, thiếu quyết đoán, "Hai Lúa" quá… Điều đó chúng ta thừa nhận, nhưng đừng lên án hoàn toàn khi trong lối sống như vậy chúng ta - những người Việt Nam đã ít có những bạo động, ít có những hành xử dã man, điên rồ. Văn hóa phương Đông, văn hóa Việt từ xưa với Nhân, Lễ, Nghĩa…của Nho giáo, học làm một con người theo nghĩa người Quân tử nghe có vẻ cầu kỳ nhưng thật đáng học, đáng để suy nghĩ và vận dụng ngay trong thời buổi nhiễu nhương, coi trọng đồng tiền, hưởng thụ này. Rồi văn hóa Phật giáo với yếu chỉ "Từ bi", "Hỉ xả" đã giúp cho nhân cách con người được hoàn thiện, được nâng cao ở mức: Sống với nhau hãy đối đãi bằng lòng từ bi, thương yêu với mọi người, kể cả với những loài khác! Với lề lối và cách sống đó đã giúp cho bạo động không hề có trong lịch sử Phật giáo. Nên chăng, mỗi người cũng nên đặt vấn đề tìm kiếm hạnh phúc ở nội tâm của mỗi người thay vì cứ kêu gọi tìm kiếm hạnh phúc từ bên ngoài! Hạnh phúc từ thương yêu, hạnh phúc không lấy từ vật chất… Với một góc nhìn xã hội học, phải chăng khi xã hội càng phát triển con người càng lao vào guồng máy của làm - làm - làm… và suốt ngày chỉ biết có hai chữ CÔNG VIỆC mà quên rằng "Gia đình là bến đỗ bình yên nhất". Những ông bố, bà mẹ bỏ bê con, chỉ biết công việc và tiền, thương con theo cách cung phụng nhiều vật chất cho con làm con trẻ thiếu tình thương - vốn là gốc rễ của hạnh phúc. Từ đó, cá nhân con trẻ thấy cô đơn và vẽ cho mình một thế giới khác, đầy những bạo lực, hưởng thụ vật chất. Điều đó đang có mầm mống ở xã hội VN, một mầm mống mà chúng ta đang mang từ những xã hội phát triển về. Bạn nghĩ sao, nếu tôi khuyên bạn hãy bỏ qua một số cơ hội kiếm tiền để ăn một bữa cơm gia đình, để chia sẻ với người mình thương, để nghe tâm tư con trẻ…? Và tôi cho rằng gia đình thiếu sự quan tâm đến con trẻ cũng là một trong những nguyên nhân gây đổ vỡ nhân cách con người! Tất nhiên, khi nói những điều này tôi không hề lên án chuyện kiếm tiền, phát triển sự nghiệp cá nhân bằng việc chăm chỉ với công việc. Nhưng bất cứ một sự chọn lựa và một cách hành xử nào đó cũng có hai mặt, chúng ta phải trả giá cho mặt nào đó mà mỗi người phải suy nghĩ lợi nào hơn, hại nào hơn để quyết định. Bạo lực là kết quả của sự bất bình trước xã hội mình đang sống, và bạo lực chắc chắn dẫn đến chết chóc, hận thù. Làm sao để con người khi giải quyết vấn đề đều bắt đầu từ tình thương, sự hiểu biết. Điều đó không nằm ở sự kêu gọi chung chung của tôi, hay một cá nhân nào đó mà ở sự chung tay của mọi người, của xã hội. Bài học ở xã hội Mỹ thiết nghĩ đang nóng bỏng ở xã hội Việt Nam, xin hãy chung tay làm một cái gì đó đi… Kết thúc bài viết này, bạn nghĩ sao với thông tin này "Thêm một ngày đẫm máu tại Baghdad, Iraq khi bốn vụ đánh bom lớn cướp đi sinh mạng của ít nhất 160 người và làm hơn 200 người khác bị thương. Một vụ đánh bom khác tại thành phố Sard làm 30 người chết (Theo hãng AP)". LƯU MẠNH KHÔI