Most people agree that the hit-to-kill phenomenon stems at least in part from perverse laws on victim compensation. In China the compensation for killing a victim in a traffic accident is relatively small—amounts typically range from $30,000 to $50,000—and once payment is made, the matter is over. By contrast, paying for lifetime care for a disabled survivor can run into the millions. The Chinese press recently described how one disabled man received about $400,000 for the first 23 years of his care. Drivers who decide to hit-and-kill do so because killing is far more economical. Indeed, Zhao Xiao Cheng—the man caught on a security camera video driving over a grandmother five times—ended up paying only about $70,000 in compensation.
I guess this points up one virtue of insurance policies.
Still, don’t they count this as murder even in China? Which can get you ignominiously shot and your family billed for the bullet?
The idea that if you accidentally run over a three year old (shudder) then do a quick calculation on future cash flow and casually decide to back over her several times to ensure she is dead is monstrous. It's inhuman. I cannot come up with words to measure my level of disgust.
The same thing goes on in Taiwan.
It stems mostly from Communism’s humanist culture and ethics that does not value human life and has condemns the idea of innate moral and natural law. The “collective” matter as it serves the state and otherwise it is every man or woman out for themselves. Libertarians celebrate this like of society. But they are special because they believe “free” markets.
Sounds like us as we “progress” down the road of humanism/Marxism another thirty years.