In China, toddler left for dead sparks heated debate about society's moral health
The case of a toddler run over twice and left in the road to die has sparked a morality debate in China about the legal and ethical shortcomings in a China focused on economic progress.The case of a toddler run over twice and left to die by passers-by in the southern Chinese city of Foshan has sparked an emotional debate online and in the press here about the legal and ethical shortcomings that constitute the dark side of China’s face-paced economic progress.
A security camera filmed a hit-and-run driver who knocked 2-year-old Wang Yueyue over on Thursday evening. Over the next seven minutes, it captured another van driving over her and then 18 people walking or cycling by without helping her, before a ragpicker moved her to the curb and alerted Yueyue’s mother, who had lost her. As of Wednesday evening she was in intensive care, her survival in doubt.
The ruling Communist party’s mouthpiece, “The People’s Daily,†warned in an editorial Tuesday titled “We Could All Be Passers-By†that “stopping moral decline and strengthening the power of kindness is a problem we have to face in our society.â€
“China has become a country without belief,†lamented “@qianbuyong†a user of the popular Sina Weibo microblog, one of over a million people to have commented on the security camera video since it was posted online over the weekend. “People only believe in money.†--By Peter Ford | Christian Science Monitor – Wed, Oct 19, 2011.
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