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>You can definitely make people behave with top down rules, and eventually it just becomes 'culture'. If by people you mean the particular type of people that
by languagelearner 2mo ago
>You can definitely make people behave with top down rules, and eventually it just becomes 'culture'.
If by people you mean the particular type of people that live in Singapore, who are known across the world to be supple and tame. Now try this logic in the United States with certain subpopulations who are chronically misbehaved and see where it gets you. Hint: it's been tried for a long time and it doesn't work.
- rangestransform 2mo agoThat was what singaporeans were like too when it split off from Malaysia, if enough people wanted to we could beat order and rule of law into the US. The problem is that too much of the US are bleeding hearts who oppose any law that even slightly inconveniences anyone unfortunate, and the other part of the US is stuck in a frontier mentality of the 1800s
- languagelearner 2mo ago[dead]