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Rape of human dignity

Commercial businesses like to call their clients "God" and label all their sales tricks with the slogan "You are sure of our sincere service". Beware! Never regard yourself as a "God". For, in the minds of many business owners, nothing but the money in your wallet is their true "God".

Last Friday, a restaurant in Hebei Province staged an event to celebrate its one-year anniversary. It fired banknotes worth 2,000-yuan ($263) into the air using an electronic cannon to lure public attention. Passersby competed with each other to grab the money in a glaring demonstration of greed. Fortunately there were no stampede.

A week earlier, a Carrefour outlet in Chongqing sold edible oil at a big discount in a sales promotion drive. Three customers died and 31 were injured in a stampede triggered by the sales.

In these two incidents, the businesses pursued profits by allegedly disregarding human dignity. Cheap sales causing stampedes and fatalities have occurred in the past in other places and local governments (including Chongqing) had issued notices banning such sales.

The Chongqing Carrefour, however, apparently carried out its sales in disregard of the possible tragic consequences, though it arranged for security guards to "keep order".

In the Hebei incident, the restaurant took precautionary measures in advance. But it used a trivial amount of money to lure people into a show of greed and loss of human dignity.