Re:Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake n...
by OldManAndTheCpp on Friday November 29, 2019 @03:34AM
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In the US, you can have your kid run and play outside if you live in a suburb, in fact a better life for their children is what pushes many families to move to the suburbs in the first place.
Re:Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake n...
by odessacubbage on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:50AM
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you could let your kid run free & unsupervised with little worry on probably near 90+ percent of the north american landmass. i spent the vast majority of my childhood with little to no supervision and crime rates have only fallen since then.
Re:Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake n...
by magduf on Friday November 29, 2019 @11:38AM
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You spent your childhood in a time before helicopter parenting became legally mandated. If you let your kid run free and unsupervised today in America, you will probably end up with a visit from CPS and/or the police, and you might get arrested. It has nothing at all to do with crime rates.
To be fair, that is possible in a lot of countries, I would have doubts to do that in America though. And not only because of crime.
> I actually began to question whether democracy was the absolute way.
There are several democratic countries that beat Singapore in regards to safety. So I believe this to be flawed reasoning. It is a safe country, but not exceptionally so.
edit: Disregarding the fact that Singapore is officially a democracy. A benevolent dictatorship would probably look more like the Gadaffi regime. Economic success in such a dictatorship is probably mandatory.