China Wonders If [sic], in the Rush of Life, It Has Lost Its Soul
22nd October 2011
The minivan driver who knocked Wang down, and then ran over her deliberately, has since surrendered to the police, but offered a curious explanation for his action. He said he had been talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl, but decided to run her over because it would have cost him less to pay off a dead girl’s parents than to pay for her hospital expenses.
“If she had died, I would have been required to pay only about 20,000 yuan (about Rs 1.5 lakh) in compensation, but if she were injured, it would cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan in hospital expenses,” he said.
My question is, did it ever have a soul to begin with.
October 22nd, 2011 at 13:14
Apparently, in China, there is no Good Samaritan any more. The communists must be so proud.
October 22nd, 2011 at 20:54
Hey, it’s just a good ol’ capitalist cost/benefit analysis, a solution based in “rational thought” rather than “compassion”. What’s the problem?
October 26th, 2011 at 08:52
“My question is, did it ever have a soul to begin with.”
Of course it has a soul. It’s been going to hell for decades, hasn’t it? And only a soul can do that.