"In Nanjing, half a decade ago, an elderly woman fell while getting on a bus. Newspaper reports tell us that the 65 year old woman broke her hip. At the scene, a young man came to her aid; let us call him Peng Yu, for that it his name. Peng Yu gave the elderly woman 200 RMB (at that time enough to buy three hundred bus tickets) and took her to the hospital. Then he continued to stay with her until the family arrived. The family sued the young man to be guilty and ordered him to pay 45,876 RMB. The court reasoned, 'according to common sense', that because Peng Yu was the first off the bus, in all probability he had knocked over the elderly woman. Further, he actually had admitted his guilt, the court reasoned, by staying with the elderly woman at the hospital. It being the case that a normal person would not be as kind as Peng Yu claimed he was."
Cited from Michael Yuen's "China and the Mist of Complicated Things", on Zizek's review of "The Act of Killing" movie, "Welcome to the Spiritual Kingdom of Animals: Slavoj Zizek on the Moral Vacuum of Global Capitalism."
Who's here just losing their faith in humanity again and again? Come and join. That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight.
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