Comments on: Cold Onlookers Encourage Man to Kill Himself http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Warren http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/#comment-16775 Warren Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:31:05 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=3127#comment-16775 Having been to China 4 times with my wife, a PRC citizen, I've noticed somewhat of a different mentality in the Chinese. Perhaps it is because there are so many people there or perhaps it is the result of the rampant human rights abuses they suffer at the hand of their government, but they seem to value human life less than I. The government notoriously cares little about their people and this seems to permeate the society. I'm not sure of relevance to this incident. Having been to China 4 times with my wife, a PRC citizen, I’ve noticed somewhat of a different mentality in the Chinese. Perhaps it is because there are so many people there or perhaps it is the result of the rampant human rights abuses they suffer at the hand of their government, but they seem to value human life less than I. The government notoriously cares little about their people and this seems to permeate the society. I’m not sure of relevance to this incident.

]]> By: Lydia http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/#comment-16383 Lydia Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:37:22 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=3127#comment-16383 Its not a cultural thing-or a Chinese thing-you narrow minded people-to goad people into jumping, there are many cases of this globally happening. I don't know why but in this situation people will shout to the sudicidel person to jump and hurry up with it as they need to "be places". It happens everywhere, in fact just last year in Derby, England, an A level student commited suicide from a multi story car park (due to exam stress according to sources) my sister was in the area when it happened and the story caused outrage across the country as people were shouting to him to hurry up and just get it over and done with and after three hours he did jump. So stop getting on your high horses, learn a bit more about the world rather than making assumptions just because you have preconceptions of a culture. Psycgologists believe that this phenomenon is due to de-individuation, a crowd mentality similar to football hooliganism, however I don't agree that there is an excuse. Its not a cultural thing-or a Chinese thing-you narrow minded people-to goad people into jumping, there are many cases of this globally happening. I don’t know why but in this situation people will shout to the sudicidel person to jump and hurry up with it as they need to “be places”. It happens everywhere, in fact just last year in Derby, England, an A level student commited suicide from a multi story car park (due to exam stress according to sources) my sister was in the area when it happened and the story caused outrage across the country as people were shouting to him to hurry up and just get it over and done with and after three hours he did jump. So stop getting on your high horses, learn a bit more about the world rather than making assumptions just because you have preconceptions of a culture. Psycgologists believe that this phenomenon is due to de-individuation, a crowd mentality similar to football hooliganism, however I don’t agree that there is an excuse.

]]> By: OceanBlue http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/#comment-16202 OceanBlue Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:33:39 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=3127#comment-16202 Come on David, just because I didn't call after anal-lysing you last night, you don't have to be mad........ I did buy you the butt plugs you wanted, didn't I?? Come on David, just because I didn’t call after anal-lysing you last night, you don’t have to be mad…….. I did buy you the butt plugs you wanted, didn’t I??

]]> By: Milky http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/#comment-16196 Milky Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:36:25 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=3127#comment-16196 Ok, if i had not lost all faith in humanity all ready, this is the kicker. Believe it or not it's not really even from the story either, mostly for the comments. The story is horrid but at least it's believable. All the comments i see on this site, as well as most others break down to: People using religion/racism to proclaim hate. People telling others to kill themselves out of sadistic mind-sets. People being cold and not caring even though this is serious. People making "ur mom" jokes. And a few good comments that everyone doesn't care about. This guys religion had nothing to do with it. He had people that would care about him. This guy was real and not just a sick joke. The internet should have a driving test like with autos and maybe then people wouldn't be such ignorant bigots as they seem to be, or they would be gone. Ok, if i had not lost all faith in humanity all ready, this is the kicker. Believe it or not it’s not really even from the story either, mostly for the comments. The story is horrid but at least it’s believable.

All the comments i see on this site, as well as most others break down to:
People using religion/racism to proclaim hate.
People telling others to kill themselves out of sadistic mind-sets.
People being cold and not caring even though this is serious.
People making “ur mom” jokes.
And a few good comments that everyone doesn’t care about.

This guys religion had nothing to do with it. He had people that would care about him. This guy was real and not just a sick joke.

The internet should have a driving test like with autos and maybe then people wouldn’t be such ignorant bigots as they seem to be, or they would be gone.

]]> By: bill http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/01/17/cold-onlookers-encourage-man-kill/#comment-16126 bill Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:52:36 +0000 http://www.weirdasianews.com/?p=3127#comment-16126 See the link above? It happened in America too. Also, why don't you kill yourself first? China will follow afterward. See the link above? It happened in America too. Also, why don’t you kill yourself first? China will follow afterward.

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