What privacy are you talking about when you're in a public place? Because I'm ME and you're YOU, and I will not tolerate YOU taking photos of ME in public. If shaming and flaming is your form of journalistic flair, it is obvious that you have no basic sense of self-respect.
1. You and I paid $$$ to board the transport.
2. All people are equal.
3. I'm entitled to sit as much as you are, subjected to availability of seats.
4. Seats are of a "first-come-first-sit" basis.
5. Do not expect and behave as if people owe you the seats just because of your plight (if any).
6. Giving up seats is a privilege and purely voluntary. You can only wait for seats to be vacant but you cannot expect.
7. If people do not give up seats, just forget it.
8. If you're really desperate to sit, take a taxi. You can sit all you want.
9. If taxis are expensive, then stop whining and remain standing and wait for an available seat.
10. Don't preach about kindness and karma when in office politics, everyone backstabs to fight for promotions. Will you give up your promotions?
So why are you so worked up? Are you aware of nosy parkers on SMRT trains? I'm unhappy with them for the way their trains work, but I'm especially infuriated by trigger-happy commuters who find joy in intruding other people's privacy with their camera phones. And these people engage in victimizing those who sit at the reserved seats trains, always hawk-eyed and ready to snap away, be it relevant or not. DO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE BRAINS?
I found this in a comment by warrant1982 under a post by a nosy someone who took a picture of a woman who was apparently busy on her iPhone while sitting on the reserved seat and was said to have ignored an old man who was standing right in front of her. If you want others to believe you, make your photo convincing, arsehole. As much as we would like to point fingers, just bear in mind that you have to search your own conscience before making an accusation. If you had been there, why are you giving up YOUR seat instead? If you had felt so strongly about it, why hadn't you taken the initiative to tell her to let up her seat? If you think your camera is the deadliest weapon, its not. YOUR STUPIDITY IS.
So here's the "Ten Commandments of public transport" written by warrant1982 which I totally subscribe to:
1. You and I paid $$$ to board the transport.
2. All people are equal.
3. I'm entitled to sit as much as you are, subjected to availability of seats.
4. Seats are of a "first-come-first-sit" basis.
5. Do not expect and behave as if people owe you the seats just because of your plight (if any).
6. Giving up seats is a privilege and purely voluntary. You can only wait for seats to be vacant but you cannot expect.
7. If people do not give up seats, just forget it.
8. If you're really desperate to sit, take a taxi. You can sit all you want.
9. If taxis are expensive, then stop whining and remain standing and wait for an available seat.
10. Don't preach about kindness and karma when in office politics, everyone backstabs to fight for promotions. Will you give up your promotions?
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