Who's accountable?

Sir Bobby Robson passed on this Friday. For detail please turn to here. He is the man who can only be toppled by the God.



Okay, now come back to the topic.

The Book Fair had been ended on early this week, and i didn't go for it. But i still want to say somethings. The Fair in this year sucessfully lured crowd but not money. The overall sales of chinese book was well short of excepted and sank of about 10%, since the attendants surged about 20% to last year. English-books gained a substantial growing but didn't help much. Instead the fair was almost overtaken by the pseudo models.

The pseudo models rolled out their racy photo albums in the book fair, has drawn fierce criticism form pubilc. Many accused that the prominent and solemn local cultural activity was turned around by those indecent publication. Many Believed that it was outrageous to reckon those racy albums as class 1 - either obscene nor indecent, in light of the photos emphasizing the models' curvy body. Most parents lashed the albums that it was sold openly and making their children contacted such racy photo easily, they urged it should be a adult zone in the fair to turn teenager away form such porn material. We could see obviously that most public was reluctant to see those pseudo models in the fair by many reasons. Some youngster deployed a silent march in the pavilion to show grievance to the pseudo model, said there were no room in the cultural fair for those pseudo models.

Somehow those accusations were reasonable, for instance, the adult zone and the preposterous classification to the album. But I got bewildered that what's the reason to get rid of the pseudo models? You could moan their demeaning behaviour, you could boycott them, you were permitted to do so. But we were not eligible to prohibit their participation. We could pay a enormous cost to do so and we could never able to afford. Speech freedom and diversity are the cadres of a civilized society - If we really banned those models, we were going to pay both of them. Just because today you exploits "obscene" as a reason to deport the models, yesterday you can pick another reason to turn another batch of people away - it is solely a arbitrary. Public sentiment could never be put in line with the principle. If we over relied on morality, it would be prejudicial to the justice of the society.

Pseudo-models overtooking the book fair was not an moral issue, it should be an market issue. There was a demand, and supply ensued. The substantial problem should be "Why those demand was so big?", and the fact was that such enormous demand confused the public to turn the course to the models. So who's accountable to this issue? Many, but none of the models. Education, pressured city life would be counted.

But Why them?