🇯🇵 Major crime in the news in Japan
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I totally agree I wouldn't really last living in Japan, and if I visited I would definitely be relying on their kindness and forgiveness. all that being said, I would not ask them to change a thing. From everything I've watched and read, their society is extremely clean and safe.
On a personal level, I think their weapons laws are extreme (historical fencing with steel trainers is more illegal there than owning a machine gun is in the US), their work culture is oppressive, their seniority system elevates people who don't deserve it while belittling people who do, and their complete allergy to rudeness is even more insulting than if they would just speak their mind. But this is all coming from a person who lives in an individualistic society were the murder rate is much higher, drug use is out of control, the streets are filled with litter, walking around at night is begging for a mugging, productivity and ingenuity are being outsourced to foreign countries, and degenerate lifestyles are considered a moral good amongst a significant portion of the population.
While I have a few theories, I don't know exactly what it is that they do that makes their society so much cleaner than ours, but whatever they're doing it's working.
Japan shouldn't change a thing.
When you lock it down as much as they do, you lose individuality at the sake of making sure degenerates are caged up.
Except Japan is still full of antisocial whack jobs, so idk if there’s a fair balance where you can toss stones at the freaks but also not get smited just for $3 of coffee
I'm honestly not sure what that means. It reminds me of the arguments in the 2000s against school uniforms in the US. Nobody could explain to me how wearing certain clothes a few hours a day was restrictive or what personal individuality was lost. I know they lean more collectivist there but that's cultural not because anything is locked down.
the US had it made at one point. Most of our cities were clean, murder rates were low, drug use was highly stigmatized and therefore underground, our productivity was high, and so was the quality of our exports.
of course, it's not like that now, but it does show that it can be done withoutsacrificing the rights of the individual.