In recent years, there have indeed been many media reports on social moral deficiencies. Let us list a few special examples:

1. In September 2013, a 70-year-old environmental health worker in Linshu County Tai was stepped on his arm, pulled his hair, and beaten in the street by his 16-year-old granddaughter. At this time, family ties are broken by violence, and morality is brutally collided. It is understood that her father was imprisoned for theft in her early years, and her mother and grandmother often had conflicts over money, which may have caused more anger, inferiority and aggression to accumulate in her heart.

Second, a 2011 "Yangtze Evening News" report: The son cried and asked his mother to buy toys, but the mother refused. The willful son strangled his mother's neck and pulled her hair. The mother was so depressed that her face was red and she was weak, so she had to give in to her son.

3. At about 5:17 pm on October 13, 2011, two-year-old Wang Yue from Foshan, Guangdong was playing in an alley more than 100 meters away from home. An oncoming van suddenly accelerated and hit him. She was knocked down and rolled under the car, and the right wheel ran over Yueyue's crotch. The driver stopped the car, increased the accelerator and drove away. The rear wheel ran over Yueyue again. Another small container truck came over and ran over her legs. Under the tragic situation, none of the 18 passers-by came to help. Due to severe brain injury, little Yueyue passed away on October 21.

Four. On the evening of February 2, 2014, an injury incident occurred in the emergency department of Shenzhen Children’s Hospital. A family member of a child injured the doctor on duty that day. After the incident, the police identified the perpetrator as Intentionally injuring others will be subject to administrative detention for 3 days.

It is understood that the day before the incident, the child was sent to the hospital for examination. The test results showed a viral infection, and the initial doctor prescribed oral medication for the child. But around 7pm on the 2nd, the couple saw that the child was not improving and went back for a follow-up visit. "Dr. Zeng, who was on duty at the time, explained that the virus infection cycle is about one week, and the fever lasts for about three days. He also asked the child to continue to observe and take medicine, and also provided the child with cold medicine and antipyretic medicine." Deputy Director Ma said that throughout the process During the incident, the emergency doctor diagnosed and treated the patient completely in accordance with the diagnosis and treatment standards and explained patiently. The reason why the children were not given injections was to prevent the misuse of antibiotics, and it was entirely out of concern for the children's health. However, the parents did not understand and believed that the doctors were irresponsible to their children. Later, Rong, the child's father, threw the prescription form at Dr. Zeng's face and punched the doctor on the head and face multiple times. Entering modern society, "moral conscience" cannot be missing

In modern social governance, political elites and institutional scholars tend to emphasize system construction and its functions. This is right. Without systems and the rule of law, a country will not be a country. But institutional governance is not the only one. While we emphasize vigorously developing the construction of external institutional norms, we often ignore the internal spiritual order of modern people.

People’s spiritual order during the transition period often faces unprecedented challenges. While the market economy and modernization have brought people a lot of material satisfaction, they have also brought about the "fragmentation" and "meaninglessness" of certain spiritual orders, personal meaninglessness, no sense of belonging, no sense of identity, and loneliness. This is the mental and psychological state of many modern people.

Ge Chenhong, a professor at the Ethics and Moral Construction Research Center of Renmin University of China, raised three questions in the history of ethical thought: What is a good life? What should we do to live a good life? What should man be?

In real life, it seems that we care more about “how we should behave” rather than “who we are” and “what kind of life is a good life”. The rule-based utilitarianism-oriented world that arises on this basis often makes people forget the nobility of human nature and the significance of human virtues, lose their spiritual home, and become a "one-sided" "materialization" of utilitarianism and pragmatism. people". In a sense, it can be said that it is the one-sided "materialization" development of modern market economy society that has ignored or even exiled the pursuit of spiritual home, meaning and value, and human nature. A large number of moral problems have arisen in society, and therefore people have regarded the modern "materialization" of life as The limitations of moral social regulation caused by model and rule utilitarianism are called "the moral dilemma of modernity".

With the deconstruction of the traditional social structure, interpersonal relationships are based on a non-blood and stranger interest relationship. Communication activities are no longer limited to the scope of kinship but occur between strangers, reflecting the It is a modern public communication. The solution to the problems of stranger interaction or modern public life depends to a large extent on the universalization of the virtue of friendship, that is, the public spirit, which includes friendship with strangers, awareness of others, and a sense of responsibility.

Under the tide of marketization, after the original social foundation and spiritual culture of blood relationships have been broken, new contractual relationships and a fair spirit that adapts to strangers' relationships are not yet ready, which makes it easy for "moral indifference" and "low moral values" to appear. "Trust" and other social and moral issues. One of the fundamental reasons for the emergence of moral dilemmas during the transition period, represented by moral indifference, is the lack of "public spirit" or "public social morality." In other words, interpersonal interactions among strangers in modern public life require more awareness of others and "presence", and more respect and friendship for others and strangers, that is, they need To adjust with the spirit of morality and fairness. Foreign media said in the "Analysis Report on the Chinese": "Chinese people do not understand the responsibilities and obligations they should bear to the country and society as social individuals. Ordinary Chinese people usually only care about their families and relatives. Chinese culture is established Based on family blood relationships rather than a rational society, Chinese people only care about the well-being of their immediate family members and turn a blind eye to the suffering of people who have nothing to do with them. "This type of analysis report is not comprehensive. , but it is also profound, touching on the Chinese people's lack of public spirit, awareness of others, and ability to be friendly to a certain extent.

Our country has been advocating and promoting the construction of spiritual civilization, the essence of which is the reshaping of morality. However, when our country strives to build professional ethics and social ethics, its strength in personal ethics and family ethics is often unsatisfactory. As everyone knows, society is a whole composed of individual "people". Similarly, social morality is also composed of individual "personal morality". We cannot only focus on macro-level social ethics and ignore micro-level personal ethics. Fortunately, our public is generally civilized and moral. In the case of beatings, a large number of people came to dissuade them, and some were even willing to use violence to resist violence to resist immorality. But for young people with serious problems, we cannot take them lightly. We should use legal restraint, psychological counseling, moral guidance and other methods to educate them. After all, the key to determining the capacity of a barrel depends on the shortest piece. We cannot let the lack of individual morality destroy the reputation of social morality.

The proposal of "modernization of governance system and governance capabilities" shows that social governance has entered the context of systemic governance and institutional governance. It is worth noting that we should not simply fall into the one-way interpretation of "institutionalism only". For modern social governance and the quality of life and happiness of modern people, only materials are not enough, and only institutions are not enough. If we want to build a truly fair and harmonious society, we also need social ethics on the basis of institutional justice and law-based governance. Sex, fairness and human conscience serve as important supplements. Social order should be the order of institutional legal rules plus "spiritual moral order", "awareness of others" and "public spirit".

Data source——

People's Daily Online: /n/2015/0817/c49150-27472440.html

Xinmin Network (China *** Shanghai Municipal Committee) ：/shehui/2013/09/07/21814623.html

China News Service (China News Service):/o/2014-02-06/075929402019.shtml