🗣️ Why Keep Making Noise About Eric Chu Running While in Office?
Regarding the controversy caused by then New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu running for President while holding office, let’s conduct a critical thinking exercise.
- Question: Is it legal? Yes, it is legal.
- Question: Is it rational? Yes, it is rational.
- Question: Is it sentimental? It doesn’t suit the sentiment of some people.
Is anyone having a comprehensive discussion on whether “running while in office” itself possesses legitimacy? No one.
🤔 Does Running While in Office Possess Legitimacy?
Why is no one discussing whether “running while in office” itself possesses legitimacy?
Because there is simply no need to discuss it.
Touch your conscience and ask yourselves: have you ever looked for another job while still in your current one?
Since everyone has no objection to other people running while in office, or even themselves seeking jobs while employed, having an objection specifically to one person is already a kind of “bias.” And Taiwan is most lacking in anything but bias.
Using bias against a specific person to discuss a biased matter—this kind of thinking makes the editor unable to ever figure out why, as humans, some people’s characters can be so despicable.
Discussing matters as they are—I think it’s truly difficult for Taiwanese people.
🔪 Double Standards in Political Manipulation
For example, this time, all DPP New Taipei City councilors mobilized to establish a coordination center for the recall of Mayor Eric Chu in their own offices. May I ask, are these people not taking the responsible work time entrusted to them by all citizens to perform the act of election assistance for their own political party?
Compared to Eric Chu, who has already applied for leave through regular channels, these people are more worthy of discussion.
But unfortunately, in Taiwan, as long as the color is right, anything can be done without the control of rational thinking. Taiwan, after all, has been living as a populist society under the bad habits of prioritizing sentiment and reason over law.
✨ Conclusion and Appeal
Wake up, everyone. Stop fighting for “who,” but think for your own positive values.
I won’t say that Eric Chu running for President of the Republic of China while holding office is right, but at least this matter is not wrong.
Although everyone has a standard in their heart, they must also pay attention to whether this standard applies universally; otherwise, it is just a selfish and weak standard that is nauseatingly crooked. 迫