' Wrote:It is not the bystander effect, because those who passed by were alone or with few others around.
Similar things happen in the west, the thing is China has more than a billion inhabitants. Of course the chances of it happening there are much bigger than in other countries.
When they start placing sanctions on China for obvious human rights abuses then maybe, just maybe, you may have a point. If something like this happens in the West, condemnation falls from the skies, people fall all over themselves begging for forgiveness and change is demanded if not forced on those who committed the "transgression". It's folly to think that because this may or might have happened in other places that we shouldn't judge China on it. Other cultures judge the West as the biggest evil in the world. Why can't the West then judge them too? It would seem only fair.
In fact the West is judged based on supposed ills committed many hundreds of years ago and are all judged guilty of it and then in the same breath are not allowed to judge others who commit those very acts in this day and age. I call that a double standard!