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Driven To Kill
2015-09-05
[Slate] Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.
Perhaps not all cultures are created equal...
Posted by:Grunter

#4  Sounds like a perverse economic incentive to me. Mostly-dead pedestrians cost you more than all-dead ones.

Plus, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the light just changed.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-09-05 15:41  

#3  It's cultural, OS, but it spans a hell of a lot of governmental styles.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-09-05 15:05  

#2  Cheapness of life, lack of respect for individual. This is the payoff of that sort of collectivist, top-heavy government culture.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-09-05 14:07  

#1  Anyone who's spent time in Asia and the Mid-East wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-09-05 11:59  

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