On the floating car incident.... There are countless opinions coming from different perspectives; but it boils down to 'value judgement' (i.e., one's personal values).
From a 'development' and 'economics' perspective, the driver has a point. Modernity so requires 'information', but the way people insist on (survival) 'instinct' is telling of the social progress we are now in. Unfortunately, the driver was not in a society where public authorities take responsibility of informing tax-paying citizens about risks and hazards in public spaces in real time.
From a 'sociology' perspective, the online comments suggest of a class conflict, particularly the loudest voices who loathe what they perceive to be an 'arrogant' behaviour. I just hope that we do not become the kind of people who need the energy that comes from hating, insulting, or making fun of someone intensely in order to keep going.
As for me, I choose to remember the unnamed people who came to help for they remind me of the true Filipino values of bayanihan, pagdamay, at pakikipagkapwa-tao — values that our nation misses so much, so dearly.
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