I vaguely recall having heard that before of somewhere out in eastern Asia, but I can’t recall where at. I’d be curious to see what that’s about.
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Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months agoDo you have a real life example of a currently existing culture with such a practice?
Because I feel like you’ve seen a few too many movies.
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Rating: unproven
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, and the reasoning behind why it’s considered such is also detailed in the link itself. I figured I’d leave that link as a way for folks to read into it and learn where the claim originated from.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s not a “life-debt” as much as it’s just regular insurance debt.
The same logic would apply in western countries, but the practice we have make it less likely you’d get away with murder so actually driving over someone to kill them on purpose after an accidental crash isn’t quite as common as in China.
Nothing to do with “saved your life so now I’m now responsible for it”.
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which is exactly what I wanted to clear up with the Snopes link.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fair enough
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Couldn’t find anything on “blood debt” or “life debt”, with the closest being a reddit article that references a Kung-Fu movie in 70s that popularises the idea
reddit.com/…/is_there_a_philosophy_behind_the_ide…