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The fact of the matter is that it is just an entirely different culture. If people could see half of the atrocities that children face in third world countries, this incident would pale in comparison.
Just take solace in the fact that it is out of your hands, other than maybe boycotting Chinese goods, there's not much you can do about it. Life is harsh and cruel and sucks in many parts of the world. Stuff like this happens all over the world, usually on a daily basis in poor backwards countries. This one just happened to be caught on video.
Now, I'm not saying that makes it OK, just not that uncommon.
Just a couple years ago, about 3 miles from my house there was a massage parlor busted....turns out they were using chinese sex slaves. Stuff like this happens even in our own country, our backyards.
Odds are one person you walk past today is engaged in some kind of horrific activity you are unaware of. Child porn, rape and so on and so forth.
A Chinese native explained to me that people are hesitant to get involved. If they had found the girl, the parents would have blamed them for the accident. It's easier to just ignore the situation. This behavior is not in any way exclusive to China. The posts demonizing this country as corrupt (as if that has anything to do with it) or godless (again, what does this have to do with it?) are unnecessary.
i almost repped you for this part of your post. the culture in china is different than here. for instance a chinese leader once remarked about high military losses, "so what if we lose a few, we have millions more where they came from" (and yes i paraphrased so what!).
as much as we would like to, and as hard as we try, in the end we cannot impose our morals and our culture on the rest of the world.
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And the posts from KUChief25 are, as always, completely heartless. No two year old is capable of making such judgments despite repeated efforts by adults to teach them. The truck driver was going no more than 15mph at the time of the accident and stopped before the girl's body hit the back wheels. He is to blame. I can just picture KUChief25 hollering at the bleeding kid for being stupid.
this is where you lost your chance at a rep point from me. ku was merely pointing out what he, and millions of other american children have been taught for generations. and that is you dont play in traffic. he was NOT blaming the child for getting run over, and i am sure that had he been there he might very well have tried to get the child out of traffic before it got run over, or tried to get help for the child after it was run over, as would nearly all of us on this forum, liberal or conservative.
Did you really just compare the death of a 2yr old girl to a predator drone taking out an Al queda member?
Then you followed it up by comparing a bunch of people standing around doing nothing to help a 2yr old as equivalent to an attack by a lone crazy woman?
How are we hypocrits for having the same attitude about the incident as the Chinese? We are AGREEING with them. Heck we condemn scumbags for their actions all the time.
I really don't know how you are coming up with the stuff you are.
I don't just "come up with this stuff"
It's a reality check with the different morals and standards that exist in this world.
It makes me sick to listen to people like you who seem to feel the morals of the world must revolve around American standards...
It's clear enough that if we lived in a society dominated by people like this poster above, 2 year-olds dying in accidents would be callously written off as "it's their own fault".
Yes they would likely say that the 2 year old did not take personal responsibility and is therefore more responsible for their plight then the drivers.
It's no one's fault except the mother, who should have been watching her freaking kid.
If her mother is deceased, then that responsibility (and subsequent blame for her death) is passed to whomever was he kid's guardian.
20yrsinBranson
How about her father? Where the heck was he???
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