陳以柔 04121121 李宗珉 04121127王舒瑀 04121135
Professor Chen
ENGLISH WRITING II
6
June
2018
We think the issue
about abolishing priority seat should concern the sense of morality first. Most
people think the priority seat takes too much room, and if it is crowded no
matter we are in MRT or bus, there is no one will seat on the priority seat.
However, it is not the problem about abolishment of priority seat, it is about
our thought.
In our opinion, the
sense of morality is more important than abolish it.
As a consequence, we disagree with abolishing the
priority seat. According to United Daily News, there is lots of news that
showing the elder got hurt when they were not yielded the priority seat from
the others. Also, according to The Merit Times, some countries have less sense
of yielding their seat for people who in need. Therefore, having priority seat
can prevent those people from being in risk. First, we talk about the sense of morality.
Second is about cost and law. Last but not the least, we discuss about the
importance of having the priority seat.
About the sense of
morality, we should learn the importance of offering your seat for the people
in need rather than standing there and being crowded with people. Moreover, we
can improve educational propaganda about the priority seat is for the people
who in need; however, you can also seat there when no one needs it.
Secondly, it is the
significant moral dilemma aroused by “moral warriors” make a certain groups of
people seek the abolition of the priority seats. Yet, if there is no priority
seat set up in any public transportation, will it stop the arguments erupting
over priority seats? In our opinion, removing priority seats can only
deteriorate the argumentative situation. First of all, the process of amending
a law is time-consuming as well as costly. According to the People with
Disabilities Rights Protection Act, priority seats should account for 15
percent of the total seats in public vehicles. Thus, the government has to
reopen the legislation to amend the law if we think the space of priority seat
is not required. To execute a change through political power, people have to
reach consequence on the issue. But there is actually no consensus recently in
our society. Then suppose the law is amended, the labors have to spend a large
amount of time on converting thousands of priority seats into ordinary seats.
The process must be a tough work. Secondly, if we get rid of priority seats, we
not only would fail to stop conflicts from happening, but worsen the problem of
whether to yield seat to the needed. Removing priority seat simply widen the
problem to take place in every single seat on a bus or MRT which result in more
criticizes by moral warriors. Therefore, we consider the best way to solve the
problem is to maintain the status quo.
The last one is the importance
of having the priority seat. Is it really imperative to set “special” seats in public
spaces? Setting those seats are not to force people to follow a certain rule.
Instead, remaining the priority seats in public space has the function as a
reminder to people. It is the same as those commercials on TV in our daily
life. As we can see it from time to time, over and over again, little chance
we’ve got to forget this concept. So it is not that “special” at all.
People in modern times
get lazy easily. We would physical feel tired even just a bit of walk. However,
the setting of the priority seats plants in our mind an idea that there is
someone else needs to take a seat more than regular people do. That is, the
true meaning of the seats. They are just normal seats in a different color yet
play as a reminder to our conscience. Yielding your seats to others only makes
you a nice and considerate person, not makes you a law abiding citizen.
Indeed, keeping the
priority seats system with no further adjustment won’t improve the situation.
We can see that recently government and companies are cooperating with
well-known designers like Duncan and Maji Meow. Cute posters indicating genuine
ideas of the priority seats are implements in many places. For that people can
be truly “polite” to each other and make the world a better place.
To sum up, we disagree to abolish the priority seats due to the factors
above. Instead, we should change our mind into being kind to others and put
more attention on those needed the seats to prevent them from the risks. Although
it is not a special seat at all, it is more than just a seat. Take some
kindness into our daily life and make the seats to be the caring and lovely
ones. Simply take a seat gracefully when you need it but yield a seat to
someone needed it more than you do.
Works Cited and reference materials
https://udn.com/news/story/7328/2528413
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/48626
https://www.dailyview.tw/Popular/Detail/344
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqFDXyFThW4
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/ecdafa20492ac0c4cc43084920b147ac/5B81D29E/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/32307990_207530226524523_2742395897634619392_n.jpg
https://www.ettoday.net/news/20161230/839369.htm
https://tw.news.yahoo.com/poll/fcbf7910-6b3e-11e6-958d-edb058a0adb9/
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/48626
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/10/15/2003657181
