Chinese virtue

Chapter 27 Lack of Empathy (3)
Many criminals in China will not be punished and get away with it, because many people do not have the money to sue, so the government cannot convict them, and some plaintiffs are ashamed to publicize the violations they have suffered.Many rapes are punished according to local customs.The criminal was beaten by a group of local men, and his legs and feet were broken or his eyes were blinded.This kind of thing can often be seen, and I know many similar things.There is a very smart Chinese who is also very clear about the way of thinking of Westerners, but he is still very surprised when he hears that Westerners say that the abuse of lynching in China is too cruel, because he thinks that such a person is killed It's all reasonable, but it's a very lenient way to deal with criminals.

A sister-in-law said to her husband's brother: "Why do you always eat and drink at my house? There is no food for you. There are knives and ropes here. You can figure out what to do." The poor brother has been away from home for many years because he committed a crime outside. He was burned blind with lime.His eyesight could no longer be restored.He told me that he still wanted to regain his sight, and if it was really impossible to regain his sight, no matter, a knife and a rope could free him.The victims of these lynchings cannot sue the officials because all the evidence is against them, and the officials feel that they deserve what they did.Therefore, even if they report to the officials, they are rarely successful, and they will even be punished severely.If he wins the lawsuit, the government can only give him justice, the situation will not improve, and he will anger his neighbors, and then he will really lose his life.

In China, human value and dignity are often underestimated, although the Chinese always say "human life is at stake".There are many thieves in China, and it is these thieves that people hate the most.China has a large population, and many people are very poor, or even too poor to survive.In such an environment, the crime of theft has become second only to the crime of murder.Once there was a famine, a person who distributed relief supplies caught a mentally ill woman. Because she often stole things, she was chained to a millstone like a dog.If Chinese thieves are caught, they basically don't need any complicated interrogation, and they will be executed in public after a few simple questions.The most commonly used method is to bury alive, which is a very cruel criminal law, also known as "swallowing gold".Four people I know have come close to being executed in this way.Two people had already been tied up with ropes and had even dug a hole.If it weren't for an elder who came forward to stop him, he might have been thrown into the pit and buried.Another time, in a small village I was familiar with, people caught a thief who was mentally abnormal. The relatives of the young thief just informed the thief's mother and planed a hole in the ice on the river to kill him. Throw it down.

During the Taiping Rebellion, soldiers were everywhere in China.Once you meet a face you haven't seen, you will catch it and question it strictly.If the caught person answered incorrectly, he would be convicted immediately.There was a notice a few hundred meters away from the location of the investigation, which stated two tragedies that happened more than 1877 years ago.At that time, the officials encouraged the people to help interrogate all the people they thought were suspicious.Once, the common people saw a man on horseback who didn't look like a local, and that man couldn't tell where he came from, and the common people found a lot of property in his package, so he was buried alive by the common people as a thief.When they were buried alive, the people saw a man running across the field, looking flustered, so the poor guy was regarded as an "accomplice of thieves", and they were also thrown into the pit and buried together.What's more, those who are about to be buried alive are forced to dig their own pits.In this day and age, all people become bold and become lawless.Some old people who have experienced this era recalled that there are so many similar things that they cannot be counted. The incident of cutting braids in [-] caused people in many areas to panic.At that time, many suspected people were executed for no apparent reason.

But this kind of panic phenomenon has not only happened in China, other countries have also had similar situations.

The Chinese are brutal, and this is where their lack of empathy stands out.Chinese people feel that Muslims in their own country are more cruel than them.Perhaps what these Chinese say is true, but even so, no civilized country can match the indifference with which the Chinese face the suffering of others.Take Chinese children as an example. When they are at home, they hardly think about anything and are carefree every day; once they start receiving education, they can no longer be so free. The "San Zi Jing" is considered to be an enlightenment reading for children. There is a sentence in it: "If the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy." Every teacher has a different understanding of this sentence, and the specific implementation standards are also different.The quality of the teacher's temper and the quality of the students' minds will change the standards for punishing students. In general, the punishment is very severe.I once saw a student who just came out of the teacher's house, looking like he had just had a fight with a street gangster, and he was covered in injuries.Teachers often scold their students for being in a bad mood.As the parents of children, they think that their children will be punished only when they make mistakes, and as a result, the poor children will be beaten by their parents again. This situation often occurs.If the child's mother always uses her child as a punching bag, then when this happens, it may get worse.

China's penal system also reflects the lack of empathy that characterizes the Chinese.The popularity of laws in China is not high, because some places do not follow the law.Some things are judged illegal by law, but local customs think it is right.Localities also often execute those they consider guilty of crimes according to their own customs.What is more prominent is that the number of board games in various places is ten times that prescribed by law in some places, and a hundred times that prescribed by law in some places.We cannot give a fair assessment of the torture suffered by Chinese prisoners.In works such as "General Introduction to China" and "Gu Bocha's Travel Notes", there are many examples of torture of prisoners. The author of "Gubocha's Travel Notes" once saw with his own eyes that because of the negligence of the yamen servants, he forgot to wear shackles on the prisoners and nailed the hands of the prisoners to the prison cart.To avoid being tortured, prisoners can only spend money to get them up and down, and those who have no money can only silently endure the vicious torture of the jailer.From the above examples, we can see that although Chinese people have "hearts", they do not have "good thoughts" in their hearts.A few years ago, a Shanghai newspaper published a case in which two old prisoners were sentenced to two to three thousand boards for extorting "filial money" from new prisoners, and their ankle bones were also smashed.It is precisely because of the darkness in the yamen that there is a Chinese saying: "You can't go to hell if you die, and you can't live in the yamen."

We have a very unexpected piece of evidence that just proves what we said earlier.The following text is excerpted from the "Beijing News" on February 1888, 2: In the memorial, the governor of Yunnan said that in some rural areas of the province, a heinous practice was discovered: when thieves who stole grain or fruit were caught , the villagers will force the parents to sign a letter agreeing to the fire, and then force the thief's parents to light the fire with their own hands, so as not to report to the police afterwards.Others were sentenced to this death penalty simply by knocking down a crop.What's more, they fabricate lies for a moment of anger and execute people to death.This heinous punishment existed for a long time during the Yunnan riots. Although the government wanted to abolish this practice, it has not succeeded so far.

In some areas of Fuzhou, after the death of the husband, the wife must die for love.There were similar reports in some newspapers before: the widow died for her husband, was forced to hang herself, and her body was burned.The purpose of doing so turned out to be only for the so-called "chastity archway".Although the government has also tried to change this custom, but has not received any results.

China lacks many things that it should have. In the eyes of politicians, it is very necessary for China to expand some navy, army and military factories; while friendly foreigners believe that China lacks more than military development. Currency, railroads and proper scientific guidance.But those who know the Chinese know best that what the Chinese need most is the "sympathy" that all human beings have.

Children need to be sympathized and valued, because children have become the greatest wealth of mankind after eighteen centuries, and they have been ignored by people in the past.The Chinese also need to sympathize with their mothers and wives. For eighteen centuries, this kind of sympathy has been deeply rooted in everyone's heart and has been recognized by most people.Chinese people should truly regard "human being" as a "human being" and learn to sympathize with others.There is a saying in ancient times that is very good: kindness is like the drizzle from the sky, whether it is the benevolent person or the beneficiary, it will be watered.Only those who know kindness can get the favor of God. The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca called this kind of emotion "spiritual defect", but this kind of sacred flower of kindness will bloom all over the world under the cultivation of Christianity, and let the world Every corner is full of flowers.

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