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I'm not blaming Texas or anything else. I'm saying that the commenter, said that the US was too dangerous to visit because of the justice system. I was pointing

I'm not blaming Texas or anything else. I'm saying that the commenter, said that the US was too dangerous to visit because of the justice system. I was pointing out that the US has vastly different state with vastly different systems and painting the entire US as the same is an incorrect statement. Could this have happened in Maine? Sure though it's vastly more likely to happen in Texas or other state with a higher rate of in-prisonment.

Malician 13y ago
When someone says, hey, the US is a really terrible place, saying "But this one (or five) states in the US aren't quite as awful!" is making their point for them. edit: I do not agree with the U.S. justice system being third world level; I just don't think the differences in states are relevant here when the average across all of them is so terrible on this particular metric.