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Originally posted by Greg B
Whutchoo talkin' bout Jeppe???
Singapore has one of the harshest yet progressive criminal justice systems on Earth. And they have one of the lowest unemployment, highest literacy levels, outstanding social engineering that's envied the world over! A kid in Singapore will grow up to learn at least 3 languages and be fluent and literate in all three! Jobs are damned near guaranteed in Singapore and worldwide. I KNOW because I get their statistics each issue! Got a lotta friends in Singapore and they work hard, have clean homes and don't bullshit with crime.
If you get busted in Singapore you end up in jail. If you committed a crime out of ignorance then they put you on a mandatory educational/vocational program where you're damned near guaranteed a job for life when you get out. That's it! You learn to earn. Now if you fuck up again? It's your ass.
They learned lonnnng ago that there are two ways of prevention and rehabilitation. Education and an occasional ass whipping to remind the soul and the body what's what.
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That may be, and it is impressive, but I highly doubt any of that success is related to public canings. More likely it is the resources put into education and rehabilitation.
My point was that mostly the radical islamic/religious countries have this kind of public physical punishment. Countries we normally don't like to compare ourselves with.