I saw a piece of news:

Over the weekend, I received inquiries from several friends from out of town: Did you arrest a college student in Nanjing for stealing takeout? Can you contact this college student? We are willing to sponsor him.

I was shocked at first, and then moved. What shocked me was that a city like Nanjing actually reduced its students to stealing takeaways. What moved me was the group of enthusiastic friends around me. After seeing the news, the first thing they overflowed with was sympathy and help.

However, as a young man from a suburb of Nanjing who has lived in Nanjing for sixteen years, I instinctively have doubts about "poor students being forced to steal takeout".

First of all, various universities in Nanjing, especially the well-known university in the news, have detailed guarantees for poor students and work-study programs at the beginning of their enrollment. Some universities in Nanjing also quietly provide "meal subsidies" to students who eat a certain number of meals in the canteen every month but have low total consumption. It is basically impossible to come to Nanjing to go to university and then be unable to afford food because of poverty at home. This situation is basically impossible to happen in Nanjing.

Our bookstore did several fundraisers last year, targeting children in Daliang Mountain and Tibet. Therefore, we also contacted many friends in Nanjing who are doing charity. They told us that companies and organizations often contact them and hope that It is possible to participate in local public welfare assistance in Nanjing, but the current situation of local public welfare in Nanjing has basically transcended the stage of mainly material assistance, and more spiritual guidance and companionship are needed. In other words, if there are really college students who are so poor that they can't even afford food, then there must be various companies and organizations in Nanjing City vying to provide assistance.

Secondly, starting from the common sense around us, as a graduate of a well-known university, if you want to beg for food in Nanjing, there are at least a thousand ways and methods. You can support yourself by working as a tutor, a housekeeper, a summer job in a restaurant, a part-time job as a bee distributing advertisements, etc.

I found the TV station’s video report and watched it several times. In the video report, there is surveillance of the theft of a college student stealing takeaway food, as well as a door-to-door investigation by the police, which records the living environment of the college student.

The college student who stole takeout rented a residential area with a good environment in the main city. Although his rental house in the community is small, it is still a single room. Judging from the environment and facilities inside the house, this is not a rent level that a college student who can't even afford food can afford.

Another detail is that the hygienic condition of the rental house is worrying. A batch of eaten take-out boxes were piled on the table. The property management personnel of the community took them out one by one to record them, and one of them was caught. This reminds me of a passage told by Guo Degang: Since ancient times, there have been no beggars asking for breakfast, because as long as they can get up and ask for breakfast, they will not beg for food.

Finally, on the basis of these doubts, I asked my friends from the police to inquire and learned that the college student currently has a part-time job, has a stable income, and has no difficulties in life. One of the reasons why he stole takeaways was because his takeaways had been stolen before, so he felt revengeful.

The Nanjing police’s criminal detention of this college student followed the provisions of Article 264 of the Criminal Law: multiple (three or more) thefts (regardless of the amount) within two years will be investigated for criminal responsibility.

However, stealing takeout is different from stealing other property. Article 13 of the General Principles of the Criminal Law stipulates that if the circumstances are obviously minor and the harm is not great, it will not be considered a crime. From the perspective of personal growth, combined with this college student's performance during his detention, I think the Nanjing police can give this college student a chance to change his ways.

Nanjing is not such an indifferent city. It will never ignore a person who cannot even afford food, let alone force a college graduate to steal; nor should Nanjing become a city that only cares about morality. , a city that does not talk about laws and facts, nor will it be kidnapped by cheap sympathy.

This college student who stole takeaway food not because he lived in poverty caused many friends from other places to shower their sympathy and love on the floor.

I just want to say that today’s college students have poor ability to take care of themselves. They are all a group of giant babies. They have lacked life training since childhood and know nothing. They will only serve the elderly. After entering college, they leave the elderly. , can no longer take care of themselves. This is the current state of many college students. We call on parents to let their children learn to work and do housework from an early age, so as not to raise a group of wastes.

Secondly, many Chinese children now lack the ability to withstand psychological stress. They have been held in the palm of their hands since childhood and have not suffered any setbacks or blows. Once they enter college, they leave their families, live alone, and face a strange new environment. , when encountering some setbacks, they can no longer bear it, and they are looking for life and death everywhere.

We call on parents to pay attention to their children’s ideological education and housework abilities from an early age.