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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Don't Chinese people worry that they will get sued
It is mindboggling, they think that being shady and unscrupulous is a form of intelligence. Someday it will come back and bite you in the ass. But Chinese people are cowards, they don't have the balls to sue so they put up with bs.
7 years 22 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Adding to what Stiggs said - we're living in a country where lawyers are regularly locked up and just plain disappear....
Remember that China rates very low on the openness and law-abiding rankings of the world, and very high on the corruption indices.
they are constantly demanding 'compensation' for situations of their own making.
Cases in point.
man climbed over a wall into a zoo to avoid paying entrance fee and gets killed by tiger.
family sues zoo for 'negligence'.
diverdude1:
haha,,, yeah,,, and not long ago that guy got the tip of his finger bitten off from trying to feed a beast (tiger, bear? I don't recall) thru the bars of the cage. Then he did same thing,,, tried to get 'compensation' from the zoo. A reporter asked him if the zoo had signs saying not to feed the animals, assclown said 'yep, but I didn't see them'.
Stiggs:
....and there was that woman not long ago who decided she just had to disregard the warning signs everywhere, the waiver she signed before entering and plain common sense and get out of her car while driving through a tiger enclosure. The inevitable happened and a tiger attacked her, then killed her elderly mother when she tried to help the daughter.
Yeah the daughter tried to sue the park, said it was somehow at least partly their fault. I don't know if she got any money - I hope not, but she probably did.
Why are we told to not help old people who have fallen, for fear of getting sued. Oh you must mean why do do they lie cheat and scam without fear of repercussions. Honest people usually can't sue.
The thing with suing people is that when it goes to court the outcome is often decided by who has the most money, connections and social standing.
People need to choose their battles.
If you're a poor farmer for example and you tried to sue the local chemical factory for dumping waste onto your land and killing your crops you would probably have thugs show up threatening you and the police charging you for disturbing the social harmony, and if it even made it to court it's doubtful you'd have any luck.
Adding to what Stiggs said - we're living in a country where lawyers are regularly locked up and just plain disappear....
Remember that China rates very low on the openness and law-abiding rankings of the world, and very high on the corruption indices.
No one sues here, the most they can do is ask for compensation on the spot because the court system is rigged and broken anyway.
You don't have to be nice to people you know, it's okay to be an entitled prick who treats people like crap and uses them in China, nothing will ever happen to you.
If you are a business owner it's okay to cheat and lie and scam people too, even as a Foreigner, what are they going to do about it anyway?
There are 1.4 billion of them, business-wise customers are seen as disposable and socially-wise if you start caring about each and every Chinese you will never get to your destination.
It's not common to sue but I don't believe the courts are all rigged. They problem is indeed that honest people can't sue correctly. Honest people believe others will be good and don't keep hard cold evidence of anything, while crooks document everything and are able to fabricate evident by using the half-true half-not method.