Comments on: Hangzhou subway tunnel collapse: problems discovered a month ago http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/11/17/hangzhou-subway-tunnel-collapse-problems-discovered-a-month-ago/ ponderings of a pococurante Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: SNR http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/11/17/hangzhou-subway-tunnel-collapse-problems-discovered-a-month-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-4214 SNR Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:53:58 +0000 http://peijinchen.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-4214 Your idea of a greater good makes no sense. What greater good would mean people don't care about others dying? I don't see how producing shoddy construction has anything to do with the greater good. It's simply greed and corruption. Also the great wall was built from slave and forced labour, no one volunteered to make the wall for the greater good. Your idea of a greater good makes no sense. What greater good would mean people don’t care about others dying? I don’t see how producing shoddy construction has anything to do with the greater good. It’s simply greed and corruption. Also the great wall was built from slave and forced labour, no one volunteered to make the wall for the greater good.

]]> By: YB http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/11/17/hangzhou-subway-tunnel-collapse-problems-discovered-a-month-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-4211 YB Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:34:41 +0000 http://peijinchen.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-4211 I agree. But that's just not the prevailing view in China, a formerly (officially still) communist State, collectivist society, with centuries, if not MILLENIA of history pointing to "greater good" always being more valuable to any individual number of human lives (construction of the Great Wall comes to mind ?). It's terrible... but is it new ? and can it be changed? And do they want it to be changed... Maybe you, and me, as foreigners... shouldn't be bearing the moral burden of the way the chinese society works... ? Not saying we shouldn't care anymore... but, if the very people at the heart of the matter, themselves, don't care... just how much power do we have left ? I agree. But that’s just not the prevailing view in China, a formerly (officially still) communist State, collectivist society, with centuries, if not MILLENIA of history pointing to “greater good” always being more valuable to any individual number of human lives (construction of the Great Wall comes to mind ?).

It’s terrible… but is it new ? and can it be changed? And do they want it to be changed… Maybe you, and me, as foreigners… shouldn’t be bearing the moral burden of the way the chinese society works… ? Not saying we shouldn’t care anymore… but, if the very people at the heart of the matter, themselves, don’t care… just how much power do we have left ?

]]> By: April Fong http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/11/17/hangzhou-subway-tunnel-collapse-problems-discovered-a-month-ago/comment-page-1/#comment-4210 April Fong Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:10:41 +0000 http://peijinchen.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-4210 The Beichuan schools, and now this. The Beichuan schools, and now this.

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