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"Perfect safety" doesn't make sense, and correlating immigration and tourism with safety doesn't make sense either. Skipping the general safety subject (every
by pizza234 12y ago
"Perfect safety" doesn't make sense, and correlating immigration and tourism with safety doesn't make sense either.
Skipping the general safety subject (every country is perfectly safe when implicitly compared to, say, Nigeria or Burma), this events needs to be put in context; specifically, this is not an entirely irrational fear, because there is an arrest-easy culture (to say the least), which is definitely something to fear, not only because of itself, but also because of the consequences (abuses of power, in abstract).
You surely missed this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8016756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8016756
While using "this" in specific, as "reason number one" is quite excessive, a fear of the culture is understandable.
- m_mueller 12y agoThank you. Yes, putting it as 'number one' might seem odd, but to me it makes sense in context. As you describe, my fear would be about being so easily arrested for trivial reasons in general, but the risk (even if it's tiny in comparison) of having my family taken apart, without me having any power to do anything, executed by the world's most powerful organisation, this is right up there with the worst possible outcomes for me personally - as in about equivalent with nuclear war, maybe second only to my wife being raped and murdered. And considering that I would be breaking several State laws with what is considered completely normal healthy behaviour in our culture, I find it completely reasonable to put this as number one reason not go live there, since everything else at the top of that list is both extremely unlikely, not influenced by our behaviour, and also possible outside the US.