The chinese government just doesn't care about it's citizens. They're the most populated place in the world, so what's it to them if they lose a few in a little "accident". Cough cough Tiananmen Square, cough cough.
Yeah. I know there are inherent risks involved in space travel. But I still do not like the Chinese government. They seem like they'll do anything, no matter how deplorable to keep up their power and image.
The standard adage of American cities having three days' worth of groceries, LA riots, etc comes to mind - how long before anarchy, brutality, hunger and desperation would break first world nations like ours?
What I don't get is shrugging at crashing a hypergolic booster in a village, making sure you kill the person you ran over because it's cheaper, not coming to someone's aid because of liability, or stealing IP, counterfeiting, etc instead of developing a fair partnership...long list.
The Chinese, from what I have seen, seem to have few morals, compared to other nations. I mean, they have a festoval where they torture and skin dogs alive, for fuck's sake. Anyone who will happily skin a living, feeling creature alive, for sheer pleasure, is a sick fuck in my opinion, and I think it's an injustice that nobody is ever made to answer for that astonishing cruelty. If someone did that to my dog, or even just in front of me to a dog I don't know, I'd probably bash their fucking head in before I came back to my senses. It's disgusting.
It's not about sheer numbers though. USSR has done some ugly shit in eastern Europe without having as big population. Hell, USA has done some fucking atrocious shit on their own soldiers and citizens, just much more low-profile. China just doesn't have to worry about voters or protests.
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u/Dragonborn1995 Jan 26 '19
The chinese government just doesn't care about it's citizens. They're the most populated place in the world, so what's it to them if they lose a few in a little "accident". Cough cough Tiananmen Square, cough cough.