Bias without basis

Everybody is created equal, but it is unrealistic, and even unreasonable, to expect that everybody should be equal in everything.

Yet that does not mean rural residents should be paid, by the government, lower amounts of compensation than their urban counterparts for death or injuries in traffic or workplace accidents.

In South China's Guangdong province, the relevant provision lays down that an urban resident will get at the most 760,000 yuan in compensation for his or her death in traffic accident, but his or her rural counterpart will get 250,000 yuan at the most. The difference, and the discrimination, appears staggering.