"Violent" rioters are preferable to violent police.
It's interesting how the countries that have the smallest (or no) military footprint, like Iceland or Japan, are also among those least likely to kill their own citizens (e.g. police killings per capita)
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While functionally this is true for Japan of today, I think it does not fall into the same category as Iceland.
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There's a reason why some of the worst atrocities ever witnessed were conducted by the Japanese en masse (not too long ago). It has had a narcissistic side to it (quite different from the West where such impulses operate at an individual level, in Japan they were collective).
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Same goes for Switzerland.
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Iceland's military budget is between $15 and 60 million, depending on how you count the coast guard. Which is ~ 0.1% +/- 0.1 of GDP. Japan mil is 1% GDP. Iceland police don't carry guns, except airport and swat. Gun ownership is high bu regulated. No handguns. There are riots.
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Data collection is a noisey matter here and comparison reliability seems suspect as a result. What are your speculations regarding cause, informed or otherwise?
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There may be some confounding variables lurking here but the correlation is probably something to explore.
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Here is a crazy idea. Could it be because they are homogeneous countries?
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1. So does Russia or Saudi Arabia 'homogeneous'. 2. Japan wasn't always like this, they changed, specially after WWII. I think the case is being small (area) countries.. it's easier to fix a whole population broken mindset. Diversity is never a problem by itself.
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