My biased, outsider’s view of America, a thread:
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what you're seeing here is that the culture war in America has got out of control and that the government (especially the federal government) has become deeply corrupt and inhumane. those are serious problems to be sure but the view from a distance is not really accurate.
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Yeah I’m admittedly cherry picking herehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/945336582369767424?s=21 …
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it's not really that the corporal punishment is that weird. arguably U.S. supermax prisons are much worse. it's that SG uses corporal punishment for things that we would consider misdemeanors (grafitti, small amount of weed, etc.).
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Different people have different values and sense(s) of what is tolerable, I supposehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/887706154372964353?s=21 …
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Mercy and forgiveness ought to be universal values. All societies fall short in their own ways.
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I think practically everyone would agree with that statement; where people disagree on is the degree to which mercy/forgiveness means allowing recidivism. Mercy to the criminal can be cruelty to her victims
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well, that's why I mentioned misdemeanors. who is the victim of possessing a dime bag of weed?
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I’m personally pro-weed myself, but if you want to understand Singaporean paranoia around drugs you probably have to go all the way back to the Chinese Opium war(s)
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