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Way larger percentage of your population is literally not free. I read 1%?! But free citizens have more freedom of speech etc.
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the prison problem is due mostly to an insane preoccupation with punishing drug abusers.
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Yeah. We tend to leave them alone mostly. So we impose on citizens & restrict freedoms differently.
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true, but it's my impression at least that people in the UK are more willing to accept gov as a protective big brother.
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I don't know that we are. Not a big drive for guns but much protest re: drugs, right to die, free speech etc.
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free speech is a much stronger right here. You disagree?
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No! That's why I said there's a lot of protest against denials of it here.
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there are no hate speech laws equivalent to yours, for example. Giving offense cannot be punished. Libel laws different too.
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OK but wasn't talking about penal system.
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But that's what I mean abt it not being as simple as government not imposing itself on ppl.
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America was founded on notions of liberty & there are also dangerous animals there.
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