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>What would happen if 100 million Bangladeshis moved to the US? Would we continue to have a first world legal system, etc? The answer is no It's ironic that pe
by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>What would happen if 100 million Bangladeshis moved to the US? Would we continue to have a first world legal system, etc? The answer is no
It's ironic that people in the US who have such great fear of immigrants worry about being overrun by criminals, when the US itself already has by far the highest amount of criminals locked in prison in the world.
>Instead, we would be tearing down the statue of liberty
Quite silly to point to mere symbolism (whether or not a statue exists) while ignoring the physical reality of human suffering behind bars.
- rayiner 8y agoWho said anything about criminals? Bangladeshis are by and large law abiding. But more than 1/3 believe that people who leave Islam should be put to death. The problem isn’t crime.
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- wu-ikkyu 8y agoIs country X's incarceration rate not related to the quality of it's legal system and institutions?
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- tengbretson 8y agoNot in the direct manner you seem to be implying.
- wu-ikkyu 8y agoThe article that rayiner posted was in reference to overzealous policing of arbitrary culture based moral offenses (not being islamic). Are many of the laws in the US not overzealous and arbitrarily moral based as well? For instance non violent drug crimes being punished with harsher sentences than violent crimes?
- danielvf 8y agoTo a first approximation, incarceration rate is equal to rate of crimes times percent reported to police times percent of solved cases times prosecution rate times sentence length. Some of these are bad things, some of these are good, and the last one is ugly.
- wu-ikkyu 8y agoStarting at the beginning of your equation, is what constitutes a "crime" not defined by the legal system to begin with? Perhaps the US has run wild with their definitions and militaristic enforcement of crimes
- selimthegrim 8y agoThey could have stayed part of Pakistan. It could have been worse. My family is Ahmadi. We left for the US in 1986 right before I was born over this death penalty for apostasy business.
- Quarrelsome 8y agoYou're referencing poll data and using that to project human behaviour across demographics. Not sure that's good science. Secondly you don't factor in that often capital punishment has majority/plurality support in most nations.