So you have so many people too scared to help people now, making the world news think that the onlookers purposely don't help cause they don't want to. It's not the case. They want to help, but are scared it's a money making fraud.
If you can get a very small child to lie in the road motionless for any length of time, you've either an incredible parent or very lucky to have such an obedient sprog. Most kids would get bored after a short while and start moving around.
Plus I would be surprised if, having been run over twice, there were no apparent signs of injury. I was near a road accident once where a woman got run over. I didn't see her body because there was a vehicle in the way, but there was still a crap load of blood everywhere. (If you want to know what I did, I dialed 999 - as did about a half dozen other people). Which of course begs the question, why didn't any of the passers by call for the police or an ambulance to investigate? Does China have some punative penalty for calling out the emergency services when they're not required, even if you're acting in good faith?
My mates Chinese mates parents (had dinner with them) said that Chinese people weren't like this before the invasion of foreign nations, they said their old morals and attitude have been lost in this modernization.
Given that I doubt his/her parents weren't alive in the 19th century, I have a feeling that may be a case of rose-tinted glasses. There are always plenty of people wherever you go saying that morality was better in their country x years ago.
But if you really want to point the finger at someone or some thing, I'd say the CCP's systematic attacks on traditional Chinese culture and religion under Mao was probably far more effective in messing people's morals up (
assuming they are messed up).
That would imply the Chinese people are naturally heartless unless "brainwashed" by propaganda into being more caring.
As you say, State "brainwashing" isn't the answer. Society as a whole needs to encourage more selfless acts. But certainly government can assist by changing the law to protect people who help out.
No, the problem is the lack of an effective rule of law in China. It is beyond ludicrous that a judge can say that the young man must have caused the old lady's injury because otherwise he would not have helped her.
I guess you're saying that this isn't rule of law because the judge is deciding what to do based on a weird personal view of how normal people would react rather than the law? That's interesting. Judges acting no differently from Imperial era officials or the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, people with too much power and no effective oversight.
