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A new trolley era
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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This reminds me of that Chinese law about being personally responsible for all medical debts of a person you run over—incentivizing killing the person, rather than injuring them.
I've seen this in comments a lot but never a source, do you happen to have one?
Only source seems to be this Slate article:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-china-intentionally-kill-the-pedestrians-they-hit-chinas-laws-have-encouraged-the-hit-to-kill-phenomenon.html
In respect to that specific Slate article, Snopes had some issues with it and labeled the story as “unproven”:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/
The Snopes article does a nice job of pointing out the Slate article’s issues.
You're right about the Snopes article. It does do a decent job of pointing out that a lot of this reporting is rumor based.
This first anecdote (also highlighted by Snopes) is amusing
So is it Taiwan or the mainland with these wild laws?
Another false claim about China, it seems.
Thanks for the links, it's much appreciated
Can always tell a hexbear crackhead from the comment alone. On the mark again.
stoopid tankie, getting high on sources
The idea that a lack of proof refutes the idea is an argument in ignorance. Literally tankie ragebait.
So we should just believe any hearsay about China bad because China bad?
Fact that you're calling it hearsay says plenty lmao. Go back to your Uyghur camp
That rumor is so stupid it doesn't even begin to stack up. Paying medical bills sucks, but killing someone even unintentionally puts you at risk of jail time. Vanishingly few people are going to choose a decade or more of hard labor in jail over paying a debt.
The only thing this whole rumor proves is that people will believe the most irrational things about China as long as it makes Chinese people look bad.
That's been revised....right?