Are we really humans...?
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A story with lesson.......please read on (from a friend)
This is a story that I read in the Chinese papers Lianhe Zaobao
on 2 Aug 1999. It is written by local Chinese traveller cum
writer, Wu WeiCai. I felt very touched and shaken by the
story and I have translated it to English so that more people
may read about it...
"This happened on a highway in China. 40 passengers,
mostly males were on an inter-state bus. Halfway
through the journey, two thugs on the bus suddenly went
up to the lady bus driver and demanded that she stopped
the bus and follow them to a waste grounds nearby.
The lady driver refused and began to put up a fight
against them. At the same time, she cried out to the other passengers
in the bus to help her.
However, the other passengers not only cruelly turned
a deaf ear to her cries, they even suggested that she give
in to the thugs' demands so that they can carry on their
journey quickly when they are done with her.
One young man amongst the passengers stood out to
chide the rest of the passengers and tried to help
the lady driver.
However, sensing that the majority of the people do not
have the guts to resist them, the thugs grew even bolder
and beat up the young man. They then forcefully dragged
the lady driver out of the bus.
Right on the side of the road, the two thugs took turns to
rape the lady driver while the rest watched. After the thugs
have satisfied their lust,they commanded the lady driver
to return to the bus and resume with the journey. With
tears streaming down her face, the lady driver begged that
they drive the righteous young man out of the bus as she is
too ashamed to face him again.
The young man felt absolutely stupefied. So much for
trying to speak up for the lady and now he is thrown
out and left stranded on a desolated highway!
Hours later, when the lady driver passed by a
mountainous cliff, she sped up and flung the
whole bus with all its passengers over the
cliff, right into the bottom of the valley.
This story was retold later by the only survivor
of the journey - the righteous young man driven out of
the bus."
Recently there have been a spate of events that
reveal the ugly side of our "civilised" society.
Not so long ago, a Malaysian bus driver was viciously
beaten up when he tried to stop a snatch thief. He
was surrounded by members of the public, watching with
their arms folded.
Another baby is found in a dust bin and was nearly
crushed to death by durian husks. I question myself.
Have we gone from the stone age to become even more
barbarious? Has the condition of the human heart degenerated
to being no different from that of an animal? Did the lady
bus driver commit suicide because she couldn't bear the
shame of being raped or is it because she has given up
on the humanity of "humans"?
If this article has caused you to pause and check
the condition of your heart, you may wish to pass it on
to someone else to read. -
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story real anot?
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so touched... the passengers were dumbed or wat looking at someone being raped... -
din read your story..but just from the topic ...i can say : NO!
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the human heart has hardened into stone..
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Its the world of mutants!!
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at first I thought this thread was going to be something about whether we are living in the matrix.
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the story is real......Originally posted by Ito_^:story real anot? -
That bus load of passengers deserve to die
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Same here what... people get robbed or house on fire or road accident, everyone will stand around and watch. Perhaps 1 or 2 person willl help. Others just don't want to get involve, but want to see and hope for 4D number and block the way of the helpers. Some ppl even stand around and say "Bird Talk"Originally posted by SBS9828X: so touched... the passengers were dumbed or wat looking at someone being raped...
I don't think its a china thing. Its a world wide thing. -
yeah ...Originally posted by Qitai:That bus load of passengers deserve to die 
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dun even need to quote that story
sometimes on the road u see ppl fall down, how many ppl will move forward to help
this is known as "diffusion of responsibility"
if u are the oni person ard, u will help
if there are other ppl ard, some might think "aiyah, others will help lah, no need me..."
explanation from wiki---
Diffusion of responsibility is a social phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.
Diffusion of responsibility can manifest itself
* in a group of peers who act or, through inaction, allow events to occur which they would never allow if alone (see bystander apathy for an example) or
* in hierarchical organizations as when, for example, underlings claim that they were following orders and supervisors claim that they were just issuing directives and not doing anything per se. -
Originally posted by FireIce:
This story is more than just diffusion of responsibility. It is worse than that!
dun even need to quote that story
sometimes on the road u see ppl fall down, how many ppl will move forward to help
this is known as "[b]diffusion of responsibility"
if u are the oni person ard, u will help
if there are other ppl ard, some might think "aiyah, others will help lah, no need me..."
explanation from wiki---
Diffusion of responsibility is a social phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.
Diffusion of responsibility can manifest itself
* in a group of peers who act or, through inaction, allow events to occur which they would never allow if alone (see bystander apathy for an example) or
* in hierarchical organizations as when, for example, underlings claim that they were following orders and supervisors claim that they were just issuing directives and not doing anything per se.
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abscence of humanityOriginally posted by Qitai:This story is more than just diffusion of responsibility. It is worse than that! -
I guess our culture or education has made people more and more bo chap or just someone who watch and gossip on other people's misfortunates.
I rmb tt my friend's mother actually taught them " only be concern of your own stuff, don't bother to care about others" Guess they will actually become more and more self-centered.
So as long as it's none of their business, they just sit and happily watch the drama, even if it happens to their own siblings.
Their parents will even stop their moving car, just to go n see the car plates of an accident
& it happened many times......... -
ok.. its dehumanizing..
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Originally posted by Ito_^:
The stories below (in Chinese) are recent and real:
story real anot?
ON the night of April 27, a 23-year-old woman was held down and raped near a construction firm in the Baofeng district of Henan province. Her cries for help attracted more than 10 passers-by, who stood around watching the "show" until the police came to the scene.
Source: http://news.shangdu.com/14/2005-04-30/20050430-796402-14.shtml
On May 11 at about 5 PM, 2 foreign women were lured and gang-raped by 6 men for up to 6 hours in a construction site at Santai district of Sichuan province. The whole incident was witnessed by many other workers at the site, some of whom even crowded around the crime scene and cheered on the perpetrators.
Source: http://news.sohu.com/20050523/n225661963.shtml -
Its all SmapLionH3art's fault!!
KILL KILL KILL! -
chey. bo wa eh tai ji!
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sad...really sad...
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but hor.. aside from the gory and inhumane acts.. wus so bloody nice about a bus driver aunty!? the rapers are really NOT HUMAN..
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I'm shaken by the news too... What can we do? There are truely such inhuman bastards on Earth...
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sooo sad! those pple really horrid.. juz watch her kenna rape..
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that story really does sound farked up.