Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit

Re:Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians t... by e40 on Saturday September 05, 2015 @11:41AM (#10175106)

Psychopaths, plain and simple.

In the US, there is no incentive for psychopaths to kill people like this. In China there is.

Also remember that the incidence of this in a country the size of China doesn't allow you to make comparison to the US. Our population is much smaller.

Lastly, the per-capita murder rate in the US is higher (we rank 110, they rank 192) [1]. Even if you account for under-reporting in China, we have a more violent society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... sort by rate

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Re:Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians t... by Steltek on Saturday September 05, 2015 @12:54PM (#10175328)

> Even if you account for under-reporting in China, we have a more violent society.

This article is about the casual murder of toddlers and preschoolers with little serious consequence by strangers. I don't think we're accounting for under-reporting enough here.

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Re:Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians t... by e40 on Saturday September 05, 2015 @05:20PM (#10176067)

I was clearly talking about the comparison of the murder rates in the US and China.

And it's not just toddlers and preschoolers. It's all pedestrians, even old people.

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