Making Way Is Now Considered An Act Of Kindness

[jw5]

There's a new advertisement promoting kindness by SMRT, which I believe can be seen on TV or on the TV screens in mrt stations.
Couldn't find the video online, if anyone can find it please post, but here's the description.

It's about a schoolgirl who goes up a crowded bus. She's unable to move to the back because people are self absorbed in their electronic gadgets and not making way. Finally, a young man makes way for her and she nods at him appreciatively. He smiles in return. The funny part is that the advert shows his foot moving to one side to make way for her (just the leg and the foot). This is considered as an act of kindness on a public bus.

That's all well and good, but what I find amazing is that making way for someone in a public place is now considered an act of kindness.
Shouldn't it be an act of consideration that is basic among humans? Kindness is when you go out of your way to help someone or help someone when he is in trouble or in need. Making way is something you do automatically, because it is natural instinct, something that if you did not do, would be considered rude and inconsiderate. Inconsideration in public places seems to be something that is tolerated and accepted more and more in society, such that consideration is now considered kindness.

 

[Capano2121]

Singapore is no longer gracious with loads of dogs, shit & flips! Everything now is considered kind & not basic human mannerism!

 

[Raiders]

Singapore buses are haunted. That's why commuters are reluctant to move to the back.

 

[laksaboy]

Public campaigns in Singapore are never about promoting virtues (kindness? hah!), but NORMS. Behaviors deemed acceptable by the ruling establishment. Courtesy, total defence, fly the flag, learn/speak Mandarin, speak good English, recycle your trash, clear the stagnant water etc.

Instead of using the punitive, legal threat of a fine, campaigns such as this attempts to use shame to get people to toe the line.

Whether you want to be considerate, or to what extent you show consideration for others, should be entirely up to you. But don't expect the micromanaging control freaks in power to become libertarian any time soon.

 

[seesuatah]

human natural instinct should be not to squeeze with so many people in a tiny space.

just in case they butt fuck you from behind which I had encountered before.

 

[zhihau]

Inconsideration in public places seems to be something that is tolerated and accepted more and more in society, such that consideration is now considered kindness.

been wondering if this is a sublimal message for Sinkie population to make way for FTs and their new generation... :o:o:o

 

[Television]

Says alot about a society when you have a "Kindness Movement"

 

[zhihau]

Says alot about a society when you have a "Kindness Movement"

seen an overcrowded animal pen? :(:(:(

 

[Television]

seen an overcrowded animal pen? :(:(:(

Heard of the Courtesy Lion before the Influx?

 

[zhihau]

Heard of the Courtesy Lion before the Influx?

the one in the 80s that didn't had the courtesy to wear pants?

 

[Television]

the one in the 80s that didn't had the courtesy to wear pants?

Wuwhahahaha. YES THAT FUCKING PERVERT

 

[wendychan]

 

[looneytan]

Making way is something you do automatically, because it is natural instinct, something that if you did not do, would be considered rude and inconsiderate.

Granduncle, you are living in the 60s

 

[terry t]

i oso sandwich like sardine on the bus at the front. no one really want to move to the back..really got hantu

 

[yinyang]

sublimal message for Sinkie population to make way for FTs and their new generation... :o

You reading more into this, and your beef's claustrophobia being crowded out in red dot?:p

act of consideration that is basic among humans?...now considered kindness.

Social engineering. It's values, either nature or inculcated. Also values by ballast from family.

 

[bryanlim1972]

there are both big and small acts of kindness. we've lost the plot so much here, that we have to start right from the beginning with the smallest of gestures which would normally be an act of consideration.

 

[jw5]

been wondering if this is a sublimal message for Sinkie population to make way for FTs and their new generation... :o:o:o

Don't think so, bro zhihau.
The intention of this advert seems to be right, telling people to be considerate.
It's just sad that we seem to have gone back to caveman days.
It's as if the caveman population has gotten too large and the "caveman kindness committee" have decided to tell all the cavemen that if they want to club their fellow cavemen on the head, they better ask politely first.

Reminds me of a recent incident I encountered when in a sg pools queue.
An elderly sinkie woman just arrived and went to the head of the queue as if there was no one else behind her.
When people in the queue behind her objected, you know what she said to them?
"I'm already here!"

 

[streetsmart73]

been wondering if this is a sublimal message for Sinkie population to make way for FTs and their new generation... :o:o:o

hi there


1. bingo!
2.another one of those soft brainwashing tactics for the dafter sheep.

 

[jw5]

Social engineering. It's values, either nature or inculcated. Also values by ballast from family.

Many years ago, someone gave a speech to a nationwide audience, whereby he described how the car he was in was nearly in an accident with another car. He half jokingly said that he almost wanted to tell the driver of the other car that he had nearly caused an accident for the prime ministar.

Perhaps it would have helped, if this person who likes to talk about graciousness, could simply have said that he wanted to tell the driver not to be inconsiderate and rude while driving on the road. Doesn't matter at all who he nearly caused an accident for.

 

[jw5]

there are both big and small acts of kindness. we've lost the plot so much here, that we have to start right from the beginning with the smallest of gestures which would normally be an act of consideration.

It's like the song from The Sound Of Music:
”Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.”

It all boils down to what society regards as considerate behaviour, which is supposed to come naturally, and acts of kindness, which is something a person does to help someone else.
Doesn't help when we have people saying that someone is a kind and decent person, simply because he very good to his family members.
Again, isn't that supposed to be the very minimum and basic requirement?
Would have thought that in a matured society, a kind and decent person is someone who is good to people other than his family members and friends, including strangers and perhaps even his rivals or opponents.