My biased, outsider’s view of America, a thread:
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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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that makes sense. the world has changed a lot since then though. the problem with extremely harsh crime and punishment systems is they are outrageously difficult to reform later. U.S. is having the same problem with our "war on drugs" bullshit now too.
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True but neither is the view from inside. I dont agree that the federal government is less humane than local governments. Because we have means of comparison with other countries that show us to be more violent, sicker, less safe, I think it's fair to call us messier
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