“In the West, law, faith and morality are a three-legged stool.”
In more than 12 years of writing about news events online, I’ ve seen a lot of disturbing videos. Scenes of chaos and violence are not hard to find in the war on terror era or whatever we’ re now calling the global conflict with radical Islam. If you’ ve seen some of the theatrical murders staged and filmed by ISIS, you know what I’ m talking about. But the most disturbing video I’ ve ever seen wasn’ t the result of a terror attack or an air strike or a mass shooting. It didn’ t involve bombs or bullets. It was a 2011 video from China showing a 2-year-old being run over by a truck. And as the helpless child died in the street, no one came to help.
Recently, a similar video went viral in China, racking up 5 million views before it was censored by the government. It shows a woman being hit by a taxi. She goes flying and winds up lying in the street. There are dozens of pedestrians who see the accident from just a few dozen feet away. Some of them look at her as they cross the street near her unmoving body, but none of them stop or try to help her. At one point, the woman’s head comes up off the pavement. She is still alive. And still, no one helps her. Eventually, she is run over by another car, a large SUV that stops a few feet past her body. The driver opens her door and appears to talk to another woman who finally walks toward the body in the street.
The woman in the video died and the two drivers who ran her over are reportedly being investigated.
