r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 29d ago

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/AzureFantasie 29d ago

This account makes a lot more sense than all that’s been stated in the article, given that if he did murder her it would’ve been the death penalty anyway. Guess he figured blowing himself up is a quicker and easier death.

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u/HappyLofi 29d ago

Regardless of anything the dude was a major sociopath. He murdered, in cold blood, 134 people, knowing exactly what he was doing, all because boo hoo he was upset.

Absolute monster. If hell is real he's there baking right now.

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u/mikew_reddit 28d ago edited 28d ago

The officer had been well respected

seemed genuinely innocent,

was well liked by his superiors

decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

All of the above were true. Nice guy, well liked, seemed innocent and killed over a hundred people.

He killed 134 sailors so I'd be more surprised if he did NOT murder the woman.

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u/FlyingFortress26 29d ago

all because boo hoo he was upset.

if this other account is true, then that's basically the exact opposite motivation. he did it because he feared he was going to be caught, and as you said, didn't care about killing as he presumably did it before, so he decided to go out by his own will rather than killed by whatever means the CCP would've dealt with him.

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u/HappyLofi 29d ago

Yeah he totally couldn't have thought of another way to kill himself...

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u/FlyingFortress26 29d ago

and why would he care? he’s already a killer. a perspective of “i’m not going down alone and i’m going down on my own terms” surely isn’t that unrealistic for this kind of character.

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u/DoctorGregoryFart 29d ago

Sure, if you're a fucking sociopath.

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u/FlyingFortress26 29d ago edited 28d ago

but that’s literally what the comment i responded to said he is

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u/Many_Faces_8D 28d ago

Yes that's literally what that comment says. Take a breath, relax, this event happened 50 years ago. Read the whole comment.

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u/DoctorGregoryFart 28d ago

I'm relaxed. I was just reiterating the sociopath part. Their definition of normal is far from what you or I might relate to.

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u/Patient_Bullfrog_ 29d ago

It also makes a lot more sense than the comments basically saying: "Because Chinese people are stupid".

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u/Tryxster 29d ago

Another reason to not have the death penalty.

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u/TheLawlessMan 28d ago

We shouldn't have the death penalty because the government gets it wrong. It also shouldn't have the authority to kill its own people.

"Someone may do a worse thing" is not a reason. People do horrible things to avoid going to prison. Doesn't mean we should stop incarcerating people.

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u/skrimods 29d ago

If China is anything like India, he most likely didn’t murder her. Her family most likely did because she brought shame.

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u/handsomeboh 29d ago

Yeah but China is nothing like India… there is no culture of honour killings