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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by wu-ikkyu on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:26PM (#17438016)
>What would happen if 100 million Bangladeshis moved to the US? Would we continue to have a first world legal system, etc? The answer is no

It's ironic that people in the US who have such great fear of immigrants worry about being overrun by criminals, when the US itself already has by far the highest amount of criminals locked in prison in the world.

>Instead, we would be tearing down the statue of liberty

Quite silly to point to mere symbolism (whether or not a statue exists) while ignoring the physical reality of human suffering behind bars.

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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by rayiner on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:28PM (#17438024)
Who said anything about criminals? Bangladeshis are by and large law abiding. But more than 1/3 believe that people who leave Islam should be put to death. The problem isn’t crime.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by selimthegrim on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:47PM (#17438117)
They could have stayed part of Pakistan. It could have been worse. My family is Ahmadi. We left for the US in 1986 right before I was born over this death penalty for apostasy business.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by Quarrelsome on Sunday July 01, 2018 @08:12PM (#17438481)
You're referencing poll data and using that to project human behaviour across demographics. Not sure that's good science. Secondly you don't factor in that often capital punishment has majority/plurality support in most nations.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by wu-ikkyu on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:35PM (#17438071)
Is country X's incarceration rate not related to the quality of it's legal system and institutions?
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by danielvf on Sunday July 01, 2018 @07:51PM (#17438390)
To a first approximation, incarceration rate is equal to rate of crimes times percent reported to police times percent of solved cases times prosecution rate times sentence length.

Some of these are bad things, some of these are good, and the last one is ugly.

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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by wu-ikkyu on Sunday July 01, 2018 @10:32PM (#17438954)
Starting at the beginning of your equation, is what constitutes a "crime" not defined by the legal system to begin with? Perhaps the US has run wild with their definitions and militaristic enforcement of crimes
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by tengbretson on Sunday July 01, 2018 @06:50PM (#17438137)
Not in the direct manner you seem to be implying.
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Re:Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry by wu-ikkyu on Sunday July 01, 2018 @10:30PM (#17438946)
The article that rayiner posted was in reference to overzealous policing of arbitrary culture based moral offenses (not being islamic). Are many of the laws in the US not overzealous and arbitrarily moral based as well? For instance non violent drug crimes being punished with harsher sentences than violent crimes?
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