As a Chinese person, I’ve noticed these incidents becoming more frequent in recent years. Despite gun control, there have been more knife attacks and vehicle rammings. Many innocent lives have been lost and families shattered, which is deeply distressing and frightening. I often remind my family and friends to be cautious when going out.
Discussing these topics is often restricted or prohibited within China. I’m curious to understand why people who want to ‘take revenge on society’ harm strangers who are defenseless and unknown to them. Logically, this behavior is hard to comprehend. There’s an old Chinese saying that roughly translates to ‘revenge should be directed at the source of the grievance.’ If someone has been wronged and feels desperate, shouldn’t they confront those who harmed them directly? By attacking random strangers, only innocent people suffer while those responsible remain unaffected.
I’m deeply saddened by this situation and am seeking insights. This is my first post on Lemmy, and I hope people can explain this issue or recommend books or videos that address the reasons behind such behaviors. Thank you very much.
Sadly extreme behavior seems to be an effect everywhere as this global late stage capitalism is causing people to lose agency and become more and more disturbed
Just because they call themselves communists, doesn’t mean the end result isn’t the same as capitalism.
A select few have the power, most others are exploited as much as possible
China has the fastest growing billionaire and millionaire class in the world. There’s never been a fully communist or capitalist country
“As a” right off the bat, no effort to back up the claims being made (instead assuming that people will automatically trust them), coming from an account that has no previous interaction with the platform, from a user who’s clearly used enough to Lemmy to know where to post questions and how to format them…
I’d strongly advise caution towards this post.
-
This is my first post on Lemmy.
-
I also use Reddit, but this particular post couldn’t get through on Reddit.
-
The format of the post was written using ChatGPT. My English is poor, making normal communication difficult, so I can’t enjoy English interactions. That’s why I haven’t responded to or interacted with any replies.
-
I swear everything I said is true. If you want to know more, it’s easy to find various news articles that can verify the authenticity of my post, as these situations have been occurring frequently in China over the past two years.
-
For general questions, I would ask on platforms I’m familiar with, but this question couldn’t possibly be successfully posted on Chinese forums, which is why I’m asking here.
-
I was a bit emotional while editing the post, and I apologize for that.
It’s very close to a US election and people are being bombarded with highly emotionally charged stories and political information all day and everyone is a bit on edge currently. There’s also a pretty large amount of sinophobia on this platform in general too. I don’t have an answer to your question, but please try not to take what others might say too personally.
Alright, thank you for your suggestion. I don’t intend to lead anyone into any politically-related discussions. I’m simply hoping to obtain logical explanations from a psychological or sociological perspective, from the standpoint of ordinary people, regarding these dangerous incidents. I truly don’t have experience communicating in English-language forums. I will learn more and pay closer attention in the future.
So basically your source is “trust me” = “I expect you all to be gullible”???
Put yourself in the situation of everyone else. From your PoV if you’re being honest or bullshitting is obvious; for us (reading your comment) it is not, all we see is someone on the internet claiming something about a population with almost no Lemmy demographic (so it’s easy to bullshit and get away with it). In those situations caution is advised.
For a loose equivalent, imagine someone claiming in a Chinese language forum “I’m from UK/France/Germany, I can confirm that I see a mass shooting here every day, the king/president/prime minister has been almost shot but they’re silencing news about it”… it feels fishy, right?
If your comment is 1) honest and 2) true then I apologise, but we [people in general] shouldn’t take something as true simply because someone else said.
Okay, I found a news article for you from last month. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78lk3gxk8mo, please take a look at it. Today in our country, another person set their vehicle on fire and crashed it into a school. You can search for more information; everything I’m saying is true.
Desperation - China’s infinite boom years are over and working conditions in lucrative jobs are fucking miserable. A lot of the youths are just refusing to participate in the economy at this point.
Desperation breeds crime authoritarianism doesnt fix the problem.
I cannot speak for such individuals and I wouldn’t say anyone can speak for another’s intentions, but historically, it has been said that, if tragedy becomes an expected effect of authority carrying out undesired action, the authority would think twice. What comes off as odd though is here we have overly consequential thinking on both sides. There’s a quote that comes to mind, “avenge smarter not harder”, and I look down on those who spread the fight like that.
