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A ruthless prison system works only when the number of laws are few and the crimes are few. The only absolutely heinous people go to jail. With the big governme

A ruthless prison system works only when the number of laws are few and the crimes are few. The only absolutely heinous people go to jail. With the big government that uses different lawfare tactics to go after people it does not like, it becomes pretty meaningless but it is hard to get rid of the ruthlessness.

beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
Reminds me of Singapore. Only about 500 acts govern them, a handful of which include caning or execution. If you avoid drugs and weapons and follow the golden rule though, very little chance of problems.
- dicktator12 2y ago
  Hanging poor smugglers for weed delivery is pretty inhuman imo. Not sure where you get your sense of proportionate punishment from.
  - beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
    I don't agree with their laws, but they are rather simple and comparatively effective, though ruthless and as you say disproportionate.
    - dicktator12 2y ago
      As someone who has spent time in that 'city-state' I can confirm that not being east asian will make you a target in the eyes of the majority who have vilified foreigners as job-stealing parasites while the multinationals they work for try everything to hire locals and hire the foreigners as last resort. This then makes sure there are multiple cameras ready to capture you breaking any law, local people trying to test you by shouting in public or pushing you in the way knowing full well that any opposition will be documented, colored as entitled aggression and will be used to mount public pressure to make an example out of you. Source below of what happened to a white women, just add biases against south and south east asian men to the mix and I can tell you the image of singapore projected will not match what people feel when they live there. https://archive.ph/tEwTp https://archive.ph/tEwTp
      - bruceb 2y ago
        The president of Singapore,Tharman Shanmugaratnam, is literally a man of south asian decent. He won the election with an overwhelming majority, 70%, the most ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam
        dicktator12 2y ago
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  - aiauthoritydev 2y ago
    The idea is not to agree with the law or that the law is good or even essential but by having few of them you avoid the misery and achieve better compliance.

beaeglebeachedd 2y ago

Reminds me of Singapore. Only about 500 acts govern them, a handful of which include caning or execution. If you avoid drugs and weapons and follow the golden rule though, very little chance of problems.

dicktator12 2y ago
Hanging poor smugglers for weed delivery is pretty inhuman imo. Not sure where you get your sense of proportionate punishment from.
- beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
  I don't agree with their laws, but they are rather simple and comparatively effective, though ruthless and as you say disproportionate.
  - dicktator12 2y ago
    As someone who has spent time in that 'city-state' I can confirm that not being east asian will make you a target in the eyes of the majority who have vilified foreigners as job-stealing parasites while the multinationals they work for try everything to hire locals and hire the foreigners as last resort. This then makes sure there are multiple cameras ready to capture you breaking any law, local people trying to test you by shouting in public or pushing you in the way knowing full well that any opposition will be documented, colored as entitled aggression and will be used to mount public pressure to make an example out of you. Source below of what happened to a white women, just add biases against south and south east asian men to the mix and I can tell you the image of singapore projected will not match what people feel when they live there. https://archive.ph/tEwTp https://archive.ph/tEwTp
    - bruceb 2y ago
      The president of Singapore,Tharman Shanmugaratnam, is literally a man of south asian decent. He won the election with an overwhelming majority, 70%, the most ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam
      - dicktator12 2y ago
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- aiauthoritydev 2y ago
  The idea is not to agree with the law or that the law is good or even essential but by having few of them you avoid the misery and achieve better compliance.