"Jump quickly!" Crowd cheers as suicidal girl drops to death from in Gansu,China

[GabrielWB 🧀]

While I do really hope that the yelling spectators will receive some punishment, we shouldn't forget the real culprits in this story that caused her to go suicidal in the first place.

In the letter, Li says that on September 5th, 2016, when she was 17 years old, she went to her school’s medical room after being troubled by a stomachache. Li’s teacher, surnamed Wu, went to check on her in the resting area and took the opportunity to inappropriately touch her face, kiss her mouth, and bite her ear. He then continued to touch her lower back and tear off some of her clothes. Luckily, another teacher walked into the medical room and Li was sent back to her dorm.
The school apparently tried to sweep the incident under the rug, ordering Wu to apologize to Li and then telling the girl to go back to class — with Wu still serving as her teacher.
Li was then forced to go to the police with her allegations. However, they proved similarly unhelpful with a court deciding not to charge Wu with any crime, reasoning that there was not sufficient evidence and that the teacher’s actions were “not severe.” Wu was released after 10 days of detention, claiming that he had only touched Li in the process of giving her a “physical check-up.”

Please punishment their asses as well.

[Fulcrum]

On some level I try to believe we have a good nature - that its part of us because cooperation generally beats "every man for himself dog eat dog i got mine im alright jack" but just news like this shakes that belief. Like if you put a stranger in a room with someone who is crying or giving birth you'd hope that generally one would try to help the other, even if just comforting.

I think while we do have some fake rules, there are some which are sorta true across all of our race, not to steal, not to murder etc and while its possible they might have propagated at some point in the bronze age its more likely that society simply couldnt survive without them so its sort of a society/cultural level "convergent memetic evolution" where strong cultural traits/traditions/rules pop up all over the place because they're simply better.

With that said I think its human nature to care for others (caveat: that we know/that belong in our group) its observed in animals too so it might be possible to argue that it is the chinese people in the news article that have an unnatural attitude. But then it might be the whole high population thing, we're just not made for it, too many people, too little empathy.

[m0use]

kill all chinese people