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Originally posted by Estragon
At its simplest: the Chinese place little value on individuality, "personal freedom", or the right to break the rules.
And that's why governments punish anything that affects the collective values harshly. We may not, of course, share those collective values; but it's at least debatable that the Chiense fondness for a bullet (very cheap and quick) is remarkably worse than the American fondness for long, slow, legal executions.