They all just ignore the little girl. How can they ignore? How?
Edited by kapca at 18:47 CDT, 16 October 2011 - 31007 Hits
In the next five minutes, a total of ten people passed by Yueyue. they saw the two-year-old on the ground fighting for her life but did nothing but look on and continued on their ways. None of them stopped, phoned anyone, or even called on anyone to help her. At this point, Yueyue has visibly stopped struggling and her body became very still. After another six minutes, a woman trash collector appeared and was the only one kind enough to help.
"Nanjing judge" refers to the infamous 2006 case of a man named Peng Yu who helped a woman to the hospital after she had fallen only to have the old woman accuse him of knocking her down. The Nanjing judge in that case ultimately ruled that common sense dictated that only the person who hit her would take her to the hospital, setting a precedent that continues only further discourages and reinforces many Chinese people's wariness to help others in similar situations.
In China, this kind of situation is referred to as the 'Peng Yu' effect. Before you condemn then, you have to understand their situation. The law right now in China means that many victims of traffic accidents, or people who have fallen ill in the street have actually successfully sued the people that helped them for sums of money that could easily destroy lives, even if there is no evidence that they are the ones that caused the accident (because they were not). There is a China Daily article on this topic.
In a country that executes more than any other, I wonder how willing you would be to potentially implicate yourself in a crime by helping a stranger. Yes, its very sad. But I, for one, find it hard to blame them in this situation. The law needs to change before people can become less suspicious.
equeco 948 points 1 day ago
I don't care about down votes. This is not by stander effect, as many people here would like to think. sadly, I've watched more than a couple of run overs/serious accidents in 2 different countries (south America and Europe) and always the by standers rushed to help. This is a cultural thing of the Chinese. If you save someone's life over there, then you are supposed to take care of than person from then on. And this are the results. As fucked up as can be. So please, Chinese people who live abroad, try to change that mentality back home.
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[–]luxi 2160 points 1 day ago
In China, this kind of situation is referred to as the 'Peng Yu' effect. Before you condemn then, you have to understand their situation. The law right now in China means that many victims of traffic accidents, or people who have fallen ill in the street have actually successfully sued the people that helped them for sums of money that could easily destroy lives, even if there is no evidence that they are the ones that caused the accident (because they were not). There is a China Daily article on this topic.
In a country that executes more than any other, I wonder how willing you would be to potentially implicate yourself in a crime by helping a stranger. Yes, its very sad. But I, for one, find it hard to blame them in this situation. The law needs to change before people can become less suspicious.
By the eve of Hu's funeral, 100,000 people gathered at Tiananmen Square.[6] Beijing students began the demonstrations to encourage continued economic reform and liberalization,[7] and evolved into a mass movement for political reform.[7] From Tiananmen Square they later expanded to the surrounding streets. Non-violent protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai and Wuhan. Looting and rioting occurred in various locations throughout China, including Xi'an and Changsha.[8]
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The movement lasted seven weeks after Hu's death on 15 April. Premier Li Peng, a hardline conservative, declared martial law on 20 May, but no military action took place until 4 June, when the tanks and troops of the People's Liberation Army moved into the streets of Beijing, using live fire while proceeding to Tiananmen Square to clear the area of protestors. The exact number of civilian deaths is not known, and the majority of estimates range from several hundred to thousands.[10] There was widespread international condemnation of the government's use of force against the protesters.[7]
Police caught the truck driver soon after the incident and the van driver turned himself in on Sunday afternoon.
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According to reports the van driver had just split up from his girlfriend and was talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl.
"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.
When she ran from shop to shop for the identity of the girl, the rag collector was told by a number of shopkeepers to mind her own business.
"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan
It disturbed me as much as the people walking past.Note the "as much"... it's not "more than"
not helping that child is not just very stupid and not only means you are shooting your own foot, but also against fundamental and basic human instinct.
Evolution hard wired these moral standards into our brains and "made" it a pleasurable feeling to suppress basic selfishness if your actions would improve the overall fitness of the (group) society you are part of.
An interesting example of altruism is found in the cellular slime moulds, such as Dictyostelium mucoroides. These protists live as individual amoebae until starved, at which point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells sacrifice themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body. Social behavior and altruism share many similarities to the interactions between the many parts (cells, genes) of an organism, but are distinguished by the ability of each individual to reproduce indefinitely without an absolute requirement for its neighbors.
Only three days after Little Yueyue's tragic accident, Yin Qiliang, a shuttle bus driver for a Shanghai supermarket, found himself in trouble for helping an elderly woman who had fallen down.
The woman fell on the ground shortly after getting off Yin's bus on Oct. 16. Seeing that she was unconscious and vomiting, Yin went to her rescue. He called police and, later, accompanied the woman to hospital.
The woman died the next day, leaving Yin in an uncomfortable situation as her relatives suspected he was responsible for her fall.
If no witness comes forth to prove his innocence, Yin could be charged with "causing injury through traffic offenses," lose his job and pay steep penalties to the woman's family.