Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should not be permitted to use mobile phones on public transportation vehicles, such as buses, trains or aeroplanes. Use specific reasons and details to explain your opinion.
你是否同意以下观点?不应该允许人们在公共交通工具例如公交车、火车或者飞机上使用手机。请用具体理由和事例来说明。
In this question, the varying situations must be considered. As a general principle, I believe the use of mobile phones should be allowed on public transportation. But there are situations and locations when they should be restricted or forbidden and when greater common courtesy should be used.
For safety reasons, mobile phones must not be allowed on airplanes during takeoff and landing because it interferes with the communication system. Absent such practical safety considerations there should be no prohibition of cell phone use.
What applies in most situations is the objectionable behavior of the cell phone user. The passenger who absentmindedly stands in the subway doorway reading or writing text messages; the guy talking loudly on his cell phone on the night train when others are trying to sleep; the person who enthusiastically talks on the phone as the bus passes her stop then makes a scene demanding the bus driver to stop right there to let her out-all these have to do with the behavior of the mobile phone user not the fact of the phone itself as on the airplane. These situations make us wish cell phones were banned on public transportation.
But in the case of the friend who has received a suicide threatening call and is rushing to their side while trying to keep them talking on the phone; the nurse who is giving critical instructions to her neighbor whose child just been hurt; the lover who just wants to reassure his sweetheart that he loves her and wants to apologize for something he just said in anger as he left her at the bus stop; the student who is receiving word from his teacher that he has reconsidered his appeal and will allow a re-test-in these situations the cell phone must be allowed.
Thus, except in safety situations, mobile phones should be allowed. We just need improvement in the human behavior issue.