• Hux@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    This reminds me of that Chinese law about being personally responsible for all medical debts of a person you run over—incentivizing killing the person, rather than injuring them.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      That rumor is so stupid it doesn’t even begin to stack up. Paying medical bills sucks, but killing someone even unintentionally puts you at risk of jail time. Vanishingly few people are going to choose a decade or more of hard labor in jail over paying a debt.

      The only thing this whole rumor proves is that people will believe the most irrational things about China as long as it makes Chinese people look bad.