EPTChinese Toddler Run Over, No One Helps! - Page 8
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Archers_bane
United States1338 Posts
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HeroHenry
United States1723 Posts
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xXFireandIceXx
Canada4296 Posts
Precisely. It's because of those events that have set this mindset. However, that's the pathetic thing. I really hope Chinese culture/justice goes through a revolution or some sort of reform because it's really disturbing right now. | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
I echo a previous post that the culture of China is rotting into a cesspit of corruption, inequality, indifference and selfishness. The Communist Party's effort at Capitalist market reforms while not giving up political dictatorship has turned the socioeconomic system into some unrecognisable hybrid with serious issues. I was going to try and defend the Chinese people, given that I am one and I know many to be compassionate, caring and warm, but this event is too strong an evidence to the contrary. Even I am incredulous that nobody even stopped to dial 120. Maybe they were spooked and scared, maybe they were too shocked, maybe their education focused purely on maths and Chinese literature and they had no idea what they should do, but BASIC HUMAN DECENCY should have warranted a simple phone call. Also, very interesting to hear about these "Civil Duty" laws, something the Politburo should implement rather than stupid measures to artificially inflate GDP and run the fragile economy into the ground. | ||
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Lmui
Canada6223 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:35 The KY wrote: Anyone who watches a 2 year old girl die because they are afraid of being sued is...well that's a bullshit reason. No it is not a bullshit reason. If they argue for example, that the girl was paralyzed and is brain-dead for the rest of her life, because you picked her up and in doing so, broke her neck/snapped her spinal cord or whatever, you're responsible for the cost of her treatment and care for the rest of her life. Not worth the risk of screwing your own family for the off-chance that you could save a little girl's life. Not with the legal system they have over there. | ||
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Jindo
United States1305 Posts
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Shizzabamman
United States71 Posts
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Blasterion
China10272 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:41 xXFireandIceXx wrote: Precisely. It's because of those events that have set this mindset. However, that's the pathetic thing. I really hope Chinese culture/justice goes through a revolution or some sort of reform because it's really disturbing right now. Yeah it really is terrible | ||
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Dazer
239 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:37 The KY wrote: Someone puts a gun to little girls head and says if you don't give him your life savings he will pull the trigger. If you refuse he kills her and leaves, you continue with your life as normal. I know what I would do. The fact that you can easily say this because you didn't put into account the difficulties of having any money to buy food at all and sleep in hunger for years that these Chinese workers face in their every day life. What they did is definitely a bad thing, but saying that you yourself would be able to do otherwise when living in such condition is a very arrogant statement. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
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ddrddrddrddr
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No. I grew up in China as well. It goes beyond it. There's a prison sentimentality, where you fear reprisal if you snitch. People shut up and mind their own business. This is just a manifestation of that. This is a piece of cancer that's been there a long fucking time. It's about fucking time for chemo. | ||
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FFGenerations
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doss
Canada137 Posts
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bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:36 Meself wrote: People should be more aware of the 'bystander effect'. I'm not saying that environmental and social differences and whatnot don't add to this specific case, but it's not as obvious as it seems. Couldn't watch more than half a minute of that video either. Really sickening and sad.  EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect Please at least read about it before making comments of extreme kind. Sadly, we are bounded by varied types of psychological effects. You can probably tell by Blasterion's posts and some others in here that the decision in '06 is a hugely important factor in explaining what happened. The fact that it was a young child, makes the reality even more sickening. While the Bystander effect is an interesting phenomenon, the legal enforcement of that case in '06 explains a lot. I am not saying it is right (because it's not, it is absolutely horrific) | ||
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
for example [insert reactive america bashing and feigned moral outrage here] | ||
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TOloseGT
United States1145 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:44 ddrddrddrddr wrote: No. I grew up in China as well. It goes beyond it. There's a prison sentimentality, where you fear reprisal if you snitch. People shut up and mind their own business. This is just a manifestation of that. This is a piece of cancer that's been there a long fucking time. It's about fucking time for chemo. Honestly, the panacea would be the cull half the population. | ||
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Blasterion
China10272 Posts
On October 18 2011 10:44 FFGenerations wrote: dont you think this is fearmongering tho Blasterion? ie it happened in one or a handful of televised cases and people shouldnt take it to heart? so next time someone says "oh you should BLAH BLAH because i heard BLAH on the news and its awwwful i know but..." you should just be like "i dont give a flying fuck, ill do what i want to do, maybe there is a 0.001% chance itll screw me over but that can go fuck itself" If it's even a 0.001% chance I'd screw over my family. then I am no going to risk it. | ||
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Sipher
United States333 Posts
If you think China is a Third World country then you are very ignorant. By the old technical terms (I hate most 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world labels because it related to back in the Cold War; and they are outdated terms), China would be a 2nd world country because they are Communist. However, to be honest. They have a booming economy, and have such high growth that they are looking like the USA back in the 50's after WW2. | ||
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LaSt)ChAnCe
United States2179 Posts
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Parj
France55 Posts
Like I said, better her dying than my family going hungry from me losing my assets, job, and future Helping isn't bad but think abit about what can happen if you do. Is your family worth that one life? Oh sure you're right, life is so pragmatical. Why don't you take her rests for dinner? | ||
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