No need to fuss about the lives chosen by others

A SECURITY GUARD in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan province who graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in biological science and technology has been criticized by many for wasting his education. Beijing News comments:

The media report that broke the story intentionally omitted the man’s identity as a manager of the client liaison department of a property management company, and simply identified him as a security guard, a post often taken by migrant workers, presumably to sharpen the contrast between his education background and his job.

This kind of maneuvering of information, which is against the ethics of journalism, is to cater to the bias against manual laborers and migrant workers.

Even if he was only a security guard, it is a personal choice how one makes a living.

In fact, as in the case of this man, people are often too eager to jump to conclusions without knowing all the facts. The man joined the research and development department of a China-Japan joint venture producing daily chemicals in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong province, after graduation. He quit the job to take care of his sick father in Changsha five years ago, and the current employer assures him of a flexible schedule to care for his father.

It is this that should have been the focus of the story.

As long as a person’s choice is legal, no one has any right to say anything against it.