Society
Beginning in 2008, the Mong Kok acid attacks began a series of acid throwing incidents from tall buildings. The government also stepped up effort against many incidents of throwing any random objects out of skyscraper windows and roofs. The housing department began installing closed-circuit television systems to monitor these throwing activities. Other incident involve the creation of a mass-suicide Facebook group called "I want to practise suicide" (我要(練習)自殺). The group was shut down before urging 190 members to kill themselves.
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“True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”
—Leo Tolstoy (18281910)
“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“The caretaking has to be done. Somebodys got to be the mommy. Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.”
—Mary Catherine Bateson (20th century)