I think you have to look at this from a certain perspective. Think about it, this is a country of 1.3 billion people. How often does this actually happen?<p>Secondly, think about incentives. Maybe I am hopelessly naive, but I believe that the majority of human beings have something built into them that stops them from hurting others. For the majority of humanity, you don&#x27;t need laws against murder, internal morality and social pressure is sufficient. However, this is a small subset of humanity that would make RATIONAL rather than MORAL choices about murder if forced to make a choice about it. This is the reason that murder has such high penalties, for those people.<p>tldr; China needs to raise the expected penalty for engaging in this sort of behavior to the point that it is not rational. This isn&#x27;t necessary for the great majority of Chinese (any more than it is anywhere else in the world) but it is necessary for some.