Fraud may have resulted in manslaughter

MORE THAN 1,000 CANCER PATIENTS in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, reportedly invested in a local company promising an annualized return rate of 13 percent and funding for a recovery program. However, those behind the company fled after taking their money. Beijing News comments:

The company is not registered to attract public deposits, and this means so it has already broken the law.

Besides, some suggest the company was not a genuine business, but rather a scam.

More detailed reports also show that some patients decided to invest because the program boasted the support of local officials. It is not yet clear whether the local officials intentionally “supported” the company. If so, they deserve punishment for that.

Therefore, we call for both the local police and the local disciplinary departments to probe the case. And if it was a case of fraud, when the fraudsters are sentenced they need to face severe penalties, because many of the cancer patients invested the money they should have spent on their treatment.

That means those involved may be guilty of causing the deaths of some of the patients. If anyone is found guilty of any wrongdoing, it is to be hoped this fact is taken into consideration, because the value of human life should be highlighted.

The quotes have aroused fierce condemnation after they were spread online. They have no appeal to the public at all, because they are contrary to gender equality.

The “female virtues” advocated by these so-called training agencies were discarded more than 100 years ago, and today there is no longer any debate about the role of women in society. Yet a question emerges: How do these “female virtue” training agencies still survive today? Why do they have women willing to be indoctrinated with such outdated values? Some of them were reported to have long lines of young women applying to join their courses at the gate.

Reports show that the majority of the women attending such courses do so because their husbands required them to, or their companies organize groups of female employees to take the courses.

That makes it easier to understand the phenomena. More than 100 years after China became a modern society, there are still men who want their wives or their employees to be submissive so they can exploit them more.

The latest news is that the local education authority has already closed the training agency in Liaoning for illegal schooling. However, in order to root out the idea of gender inequality, it needs the participation of the whole of society. Only in this way will female inequality disappear from our society.