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[quote=BOBERT,446576] The video allowed Chinese to count and condemn the people who saw Yueyue but did nothing to help her. China's largest microblogging site, Sina Weibo, rapidly became an arena for fury and accusation. "This is not about 18 individuals reflecting on their hateful indifference, but a matter of shame for everyone. We are a kind people. When did we start hiding that?" said one. "Humans beget humans, devils beget devils. China gave birth to this f***ing society," wrote another. Many bloggers highlighted what they saw as contrasting Chinese and foreign responses to an endangered life, citing an incident last week when an American tourist jumped into a lake in the southeastern city of Hangzhou to rescue a Chinese woman from drowning. The focus has shifted from the callousness of the passers-by to practical pressures that kept them from trying to help. Many remember a case in 2006 when a 65-year-old woman fell in the street and broke her hip. Peng Yu, 26, rushed to help, took her to hospital and gave her 200 yuan for good measure. She later sued him, winning an award of 45,000 yuan because the judge decided that Mr Peng's gift was evidence that he had caused her fall. Since then the fear of litigation has increased. In June, last year, a man helped an elderly woman only to be sued for 100,000 yuan. By September the Ministry of Health advised the public not to rush to lend a hand to the elderly if they fall. The results of that advice are already evident. Last month in central Wuhan, an 88-year-old man collapsed in the street and was left to die because no one dared to help. The Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, subsequently conducted a poll that found that 80 per cent of people would not help an elderly person in the street for fear of extortion. Many microbloggers yesterday wondered if they would have behaved differently. Others, echoing similar comments after a high-speed railway collision in July, blamed the country's breakneck pursuit of profit for the death of "the good and the beautiful". One, on a tack that resulted in censors deleting some microblogs on the Sina Weibo website, blamed a government that had "broken the moral standards of the Chinese nation down to a level where the people are screaming". The Times[/quote]
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