Hacker News Reader

Comment by Dirlewanger | Hacker News Reader

It's hard for people to accept the fact that modern Chinese society is rotten to the core. You don't hear people describing China as "the government's horrible, but the people are nice", you hear "the government's horrible, and so are the people". I've heard this from a lot of exasperated Chinese expats.

View on HN

This comment breaks the site guidelines. Please don't take HN threads further into name-calling and nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: apart from all the other times we've had to ask you this, I just noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518968, which is egregious and a bannable offence. I actually just banned you, but since your other recent comments haven't been that bad, decided to reverse that for the time being. Would you please review the site guidelines and use this site as intended from now on?

Your idea will get more traction if you describe the behavior as rotten to the core instead of the person. After all, you are projecting your value system onto another set of people who have different values. Neither of your value systems are true.

>Neither of your value systems are true.

Not believing there is any “true” value system is in itself just another value system (or religion), and asserting as such is just as annoying - often more so.

> rotten to the core

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/101323...

Dishonesty is so pervasive, it's considered integral to success in every strata. A Chinese citizen getting arrested for misconduct elicits commentary of "they are unlucky" not "that's good for society".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com