If you’ve placed a negative value on unborn little girls, then you shouldn’t be terribly surprised when those who manage survive the pre-natal gauntlet aren’t valued any more highly:
So was it capitalism that deadened those drivers and passers-by to the death of one little girl, or was it a culture that traditionally devalues girls and that has, for thirty years, had enforced a government policy that, inevitably, means that girls are killed in utero? If girls are so valueless in utero, why should their value increase ex utero? The message that Chinese citizens have absorbed is simple: Don’t get involved as a general matter because the government is likely to come after you — and considering the risk, you should especially avoid getting involved with a manifestly disposable citizen, i.e., one little girl in bright pink trousers.
It is sheer lunacy to attempt to blame capitalism for the more than a dozen people who walked by, indifferent to the suffering of the dying little girl. These are people who have been taught for the entirety of their existence that a) there are too many people and b) killing little girls is a social good. Now they’re supposed to suddenly switch gears because there is one less undesirable little girl to overpopulate China?
Quite clearly, that’s not going to happen. There is nothing wrong with those Chinese individuals that isn’t the result of social engineering. This is the New Chinese Man that Mao wanted to create. They aren’t monsters so much as they are the product of a monstrous society, raised from birth to be blind to the suffering and death of little girls.