China has been revolted by the callous and repeated hit-and-run crushing of a little girl and the subsequent unwillingness of passers-by to so much as acknowledge her bloodied body lying in the middle of the road, but according to surveys some 86% of Chinese claim they would help such an accident victim.
In a pathetic attempt to salvage a hero from the incident a media circus has erupted around the only woman to help the girl – despite the fact she wants nothing to do with any fame arising from an act of kindness she regards as a matter of course.
There are mixed reports over what actually happened to the girl – reports range from death to recovery, although the consensus now appears to be that she is brain-dead and in critical condition, with massive injuries and poor chances for recovery. The two motorists who ran over her have since been arrested.
Chinese media has expressed moral outrage, although widely publicised cases where good Samaritans have been forced to pay the medical costs of the people they helped or accused of actually injuring them in the first place have been highlighted as a partial explanation for the evident moral vacuum which is mainland China.
Online, the reaction to the incident is mainly one of outrage, although if the results of one survey of Internet users conducted on a major Chinese portal are to be believed, the majority of Chinese would actually help such a victim:
Call the police: 66.4%
Unhesitatingly help them and call for help from those around: 19.5%
I’d be afraid of being accused of perpetrating the crime, so I’d flee immediately: 6.9%
Wouldn’t know until I was there: 3.8%
Leave the frightening place immediately: 2.2%
Just stand around and watch: 0.6%
Pretend not to be interested and just stand around and watch: 0.6%
According to police, the girl was ignored by 18 passers-by before being helped – some simple application of probability theory suggests that with an 86% chance of someone assisting in some way, the chances of being ignored by 18 successive people are rather low, so either the girl was incredibly unlucky or the survey respondents incredibly deluded or dishonest…
If you ever been to China so many con artists there, if you go help someone who got hit by a car for the sake of money they will say YOU hit them or knocked them over and demand money because
1) Driver already is long gone so no one is going to pay up.
2) Greed but they are poor.
It’s understandable but least the 18 could have done was call someone to help but the 2 drivers that ran her over smh.
Okay… listen up. Most of you are speaking from an emotional place, and that is understandable. This is a tragic event and thankfully very few people are unmoved by this incident. But, here is the sad news… most of you would have done nothing to help her either. Don’t believe me? Look up the bystander effect. Look up the murder of Kitty Genovese, in New York. To lazy? Allow me to summarize… woman stabbed multiple times in the middle of an apartment complex and no one helped. It’s a psychological phenomenon known as the bystander effect. The MAJORITY of people in these tragic situations are unable to act. But… there is one known way to counter act the bystander effect and that is to know about it and be the first person to act.
For all the racist out there saying this is strictly a problem is China, this happens ALL OVER THE WORLD! Children, adults, boys and girls, are killed all over the world due to carelessness or worse, outright cruelty. If you really want to make a difference, stop the blaming and name calling, pay attention, and act when you see something wrong.
Lastly, to the racists again, blaming those who did nothing, calling them names because of that poor little girls suffering… every name you called them, every hateful thought… they land right on that little girl you think you are defending.
Wake up.
no matter how pretty the icing on the cake, a rotten cake will always remain rotten inside
and yes the cake is also a liar
The girl died. [*]
I hope those people will suffer badly.
BTW，she was gone~~~