第十回: 兩個19歲男生,不一樣地追求民主同公義
捨棄中環生活圈,擁抱綿羊與蜜糖之地。
一、香港
係香港,激烈既社會運動繼續。上週日(10月13日)就有市民發起「十八區開花」,區區有示威。其中,有個差佬係觀塘被割傷頸靜脈,一名十九歲中六男生涉案被捕(註一)。

二、紐西蘭
割頸事件前一日(10月12日),紐西蘭舉行地方選舉(類似香港區議會),一名十九歲台灣移民二代當選,成為北島城鎮Rotorua Lakes市議員(註二)。

親愛既「和理非」讀者,你地見到許同學以刀傷人,係咪都覺得好暴力,係咪好想譴責呢?我希望你地決定同佢割蓆之前,聽下哲學家Candice Delmas點樣講「Vigilantism」(私了)先:
When faced with official misconduct … protest and civil disobedience may be effective tools of reform.
…Thus a certain kind of vigilantism — the organized use of self-defensive force — may be justified in contexts of entrenched institutional inefficacy(嚴重制度失效)that leaves some people vulnerable to grave harm, so long as it involves the justified use of force in defense of self or others.
That is, the harm inflicted by the vigilante must be a proportional (necessary and fitting) response to an immediate threat. Wounding or killing a Klansman (黑幫)about to lynch someone is justified rather than, say, fleeing and calling the police.
— “ A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil” (Page 95–97)
同時作者亦引用二十世紀初,美國黑人民權活躍份子 Malcolm X既睇法:
In areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it’s time for Negroes to defend themselves…If the White man doesn’t want the Black man buying rifles and shotguns, then let the government do its job.
簡單講,Delmas認為一個公義又民主既社會,市民有責任遵守法律。但係,當政權/法律變得不公義既時候,市民也有責任武力抗爭。紐西蘭既年青人,唔怕畀「選舉主任」DQ(disqualify),可以堂堂正正走進議會,用制度監察政府。所以,佢地咪唔使個個禮拜上街,為民主同公義抗爭囉。如果香港既議會制度還有效,邊個會想去衝?仲有,係邊個教曉香港人,和平遊行示威沒有用?暴力,都是政權逼出黎的。
至於今時今日,武力升級至咩程度先叫做「合理」?大家不妨先重溫一次7.21元朗站、8.31太子站、以及呢四個月以黎發生過咩事,才再作定奪,好嗎?
(2019–10–14)
註:
- 〈刺頸傷警靜脈 中六生涉意圖謀殺被捕〉,明報,2019–10–15
- 〈Fisher Wang elected as Rotorua Lakes Council’s youngest councillor〉,NZ Herald,2019–10–14