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"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and t

"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.

algoatecorn 4y ago
My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.
- kafkaesque 4y ago
  - caterpi11ar 4y ago
    i think what most people mean by 'safety' is 'low incidence of murder, assault, robbery, kidnap, rape' but you seem to mean 'low incidence of getting feelings hurt'. this might be why you and others seem to be talking past each other.
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  - bigDinosaur 4y ago
    One of the very few countries where women I've known have felt completely safe walking home alone at 2am. Yes, to a certain extent they are underestimating the real risks which are definitely non-zero, but it's definitely fairly unique from a violent crime in the streets perspective.
- lolive 4y ago
  Japan is safe. But Japan TV IS NOT safe.
azinman2 4y ago
So remove hundreds of countries, and then you’ve got what left?
- kafkaesque 4y ago
  You are comparing the worst countries with a rich, average country to make said country look like the safest, which is deceiving.
  - azinman2 4y ago
    Pick any list related to crime world wide, and Japan is in top 10 or far better. It is one of the safest in the world no matter how you slice it. Why is that such a controversial statement? It’s like you’re moving the goal post, and Japan still gets the goal.
pjscott 4y ago
The US shouldn't be thought of as a homogenous place. There are parts of the US -- most of it, geographically, as far as I can tell -- which are basically indistinguishable from their Japanese counterparts in crime rates and levels of social trust. Almost every good thing you can say about a Japanese town is true of a (smaller) American town, and vice versa. I've lived in nice places in America where crime was shocking and essentially not heard of; I've also lived in places where some lunatic with a screwdriver threatened to stab random passers-by six times before breakfast, and the police just sighed and took Philip McStabbins to jail overnight for the 262nd time because the DA wouldn't prosecute. And that's the thing, isn't it? America is mostly super-low crime, but for some reason we have a dysfunctional criminal underclass that just won't go away. Japan seems weird to us because theirs is smaller than ours (and often held in check by Yakuza higher-ups with calmer heads.) Why do US cities have so many neighborhoods where you Do Not Go, while almost all of the US has no neighborhoods where you feel even vaguely unsafe?

algoatecorn 4y ago

My goodness, what is your point? Japan is unequivocally one of the safest countries in the world. This is a well-known fact and you can look it up yourself if you need a source. Top 10, there ya go. I mean, really, what an odd opinion to stand beside.

kafkaesque 4y ago
- caterpi11ar 4y ago
  i think what most people mean by 'safety' is 'low incidence of murder, assault, robbery, kidnap, rape' but you seem to mean 'low incidence of getting feelings hurt'. this might be why you and others seem to be talking past each other.
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- bigDinosaur 4y ago
  One of the very few countries where women I've known have felt completely safe walking home alone at 2am. Yes, to a certain extent they are underestimating the real risks which are definitely non-zero, but it's definitely fairly unique from a violent crime in the streets perspective.
lolive 4y ago
Japan is safe. But Japan TV IS NOT safe.

azinman2 4y ago

So remove hundreds of countries, and then you’ve got what left?

kafkaesque 4y ago
You are comparing the worst countries with a rich, average country to make said country look like the safest, which is deceiving.
- azinman2 4y ago
  Pick any list related to crime world wide, and Japan is in top 10 or far better. It is one of the safest in the world no matter how you slice it. Why is that such a controversial statement? It’s like you’re moving the goal post, and Japan still gets the goal.

pjscott 4y ago

The US shouldn't be thought of as a homogenous place. There are parts of the US -- most of it, geographically, as far as I can tell -- which are basically indistinguishable from their Japanese counterparts in crime rates and levels of social trust. Almost every good thing you can say about a Japanese town is true of a (smaller) American town, and vice versa. I've lived in nice places in America where crime was shocking and essentially not heard of; I've also lived in places where some lunatic with a screwdriver threatened to stab random passers-by six times before breakfast, and the police just sighed and took Philip McStabbins to jail overnight for the 262nd time because the DA wouldn't prosecute. And that's the thing, isn't it? America is mostly super-low crime, but for some reason we have a dysfunctional criminal underclass that just won't go away. Japan seems weird to us because theirs is smaller than ours (and often held in check by Yakuza higher-ups with calmer heads.) Why do US cities have so many neighborhoods where you Do Not Go, while almost all of the US has no neighborhoods where you feel even vaguely unsafe?