I would like to comment on the article on "Bus sex videotaping".

Should the people involved be videoed?
No, I do not think that the people should be videoed. I do not think that there is any point in taking the video. Perhaps the person wanted to inform the public about such indecent behaviour happening in Singapore but I personally think that it is not a must for the public to know and believe that such an incident happened. Furthermore, at that point in time, a better reaction to what is happening would be to stop them from whatever they are doing instead of watching them and taking a video of them. If not, the person could have always call the poilce to handle the situation.

Who is at fault?
Both the couple who commited the act on the bus and the person who took the video are at fault. Firstly, why are the couple commiting such an indecent act on the bus? Such acts should not be seen in the public at all. They do not consider the fact that children may be boarding the bus and see them in such an act. On the other hand, the person should not have took the video too. In a way, he is invading on the couple's privacy. What he should have done was to inform the couple that they should not be doing what they are doing in everyone's plain sight. Although the root cause of this incident is the couple, the reason that this was blown into such a huge matter is due to the person who took the video.

What should not be done?
Commiting the act and videotaping the act are both things that should not be done. However, other than that the internet community should also not have done what they did. When the video appeared on the net, they should have simply ignored the video. By continuously commenting and taking notice of the video, they are indirectly encouraging the person who took the video and give the impression that what he did is correct, when in actual fact he should not have taken the video. The internet community should not have given so much publicity to the video. Hence, in this way, the media also also at fault. Simply informing the public about such an incident is more than enough, there was no need to go around asking for the opinions of various people.

Howled at 8:39 AM