This is terrible trope that keeps coming up. When something bad happens in a country, just because you claim the US has the same problem <i>does not at all ever make it acceptable</i>. It&#x27;s a total non sequitur.<p>And that&#x27;s without even mentioning the fact that 1) the people in the article actually fled the scene, 2) many of them got out of the car and ran over the person again, 3) in the US you will in fact face penalties if you are deemed to be negligent in some way (you were speeding, didn&#x27;t have a license, etc.)