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Comment by blks

4 hours ago

Violence creates more violence. Singapore has a lot of these sick backwater policies in place.

If that were true Singapore would be a particularly violent place, it's not. Source: I lived there.

  • Singapore isn't particularly violent, it's just efficient. It's the threat of deportation (huge swathes of the population are on work visas) or punishment that keeps people in line. Even their prisons aren't very violent, it's just that if you commit a crime, the police will find you (it's a small place with lots of cameras) and the courts will apply the standard sentencing.

> Violence creates more violence

Citation needed (specifically in the case of discipline)