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and then one considers pretty much all other countries, the ONLY thing making it different here, is that while the US is happy to kill its citizens, the other c
by redeeman 3y ago
and then one considers pretty much all other countries, the ONLY thing making it different here, is that while the US is happy to kill its citizens, the other countries are even more happy to have their tax slaves that they prefer to imprison for decades and then try see if they can extract more via taxes. Gotta do ANYTHING to keep the tax slaves paying
- bee_rider 3y agoDoesn’t the US have a much higher incarceration rate than most… developed countries, at least?
- redeeman 3y agoyes, and what can we infer here? the US is more willing to keep criminals that might harm others locked up, contrasting to europe where the holy goal is to collect >50% of peoples entire existence, regardless of the risk to others. And also, the US has some slight problems with super corrupt individuals in power like the vice president that hid evidence that would free up wrongly convicted individuals, and hillary clinton that used prison labour to build her vacation homes. the demographics, for many many reasons, are also more criminal in the US
- bee_rider 3y agoI’m not sure what country you are thinking of specifically. Does it have a much higher violent crime rate than the US? Edit: actually, thinking of it, I sort of doubt this will be a productive conversation. I gather that your position is that the US criminal system is basically OK-ish, or at least better than most other developed countries. I basically disagree with this, but I don’t think either of us have any chance of convincing each other, and will both just end up annoyed, so what’s the point, right?
- redeeman 3y agoi strongly dislike the US system, but some of the things it does is much better than what so called "civilized countries" do