Comments on: Chengguan Deny They Killed Fruit Vendor, No One Believes Them

By: narsfweasels

narsfweasels — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:15:45 +0000

Well, there’s an equivalency here: A minority of people are in the government. And they claim credit for the success of the nation. If you take credit for the success, then you must be responsible for the failures – either by action or omission of action, and therefore a minority are responsible for all the failures.

By: terroir

terroir — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:17:20 +0000

Another way of defining “extralegal” is that these chengguan are above the law; for all the many chengguan stories that you hear about, all your hear about is acts in which people are victimized by chengguan and not chengguan being held responsible for their actions.

One injustice is too many; to try to factor in “the law of averages” just means that humanity is lost within the huge crush of a system too massive for its own good.

Ask an honest moot question, and you will honestly answer yourself.

By: Anthony Tao

Anthony Tao — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 06:37:09 +0000

I think you bring up a fair point, but the studies I’ve seen suggest that it’s not an insignificant minority that’s causing problems (thus the quotation marks, to point out that Global Times’s wording on “minority of chengguan” doesn’t tell the full story).

I can appreciate how tough the honest chengguan’s job is, though. We’ve posted about it before. You deal constantly with peddlers who are deeply resentful of authority, some of them who probably do break the law, and on top of that, perception problems caused by your asshole colleagues.

By: reddit

reddit — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:16:04 +0000

Let’s analyze this honestly…

Is it not a “minority of chengguan” committing these heinous acts? Why the quotations? China is a very, very big country. Lots of people. Lots of chengguan, too. Surely the amount of chengguan beating/killing people seems like a lot when its in the news every day, but in terms of OVERALL numbers of chengguan in the country, how common is this? I don’t know, I’m just asking…