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Wait, Singapore has the death penalty? I thought it was such an exemplary modern country?
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
Wait, Singapore has the death penalty? I thought it was such an exemplary modern country?
- toyg 5y ago"Exemplary" - it's effectively a very authoritarian one-party state, organized over racial lines, that profits parasitically from their neighbours (refining Indonesian oil, dodging Chinese taxes, etc etc). It works, for sure, which is a sad indictment of humanity in the third millennium, but personally I wouldn't want to follow that "example".
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoSometimes it ranks highly in "freedom lists" - for example economic freedom. It is cited for being well run and achieving a successful diverse society. At other times they write how rigid their system is.