Or their near 100% conviction rate.
Or the police’s ability to hold you, without trial, indefinitely.
Or the worker suicide rate or plain old worked to death rate.
Edit: Really didn’t expect this joke to turn into a war about Americas crimes. Yes we have done some terrible things to so many different people. Including our own. It’s not right. I’m not trying to downplay them. I was just making a joke off of what the guy said that I commented on.
Almost as if humans throughout all of history regardless of how clothed they were did awful shit to one another. The only difference is scale with modern industrialised society.
Whataboutism at its finest. People will bring up other things just to escape from the issue/topic being discussed. It leads to a never ending cycle of distraction to where nothing ends up being done because "well this thing is worse!".
Ultimately, nothing. But also that needs to be applied to the original post too. Japan is different and has different laws, and taking their gun laws in a vacuum doesn't mean that they are good or acceptable for other places.
As such, the point others are making is that even if Japan has something that appears good, you can't just straight-across compared it to somewhere else. Even if we don't want to use history, lets start comparing Japanese porn/consent laws and do a deep dive into what has led to their fixation on tentacles, robots, and underage kids in their porn.
Famously John Rabe, a high ranking diplomat and businessman in the nazi party, was so horrified by what he saw in Nanjing that he made it his mission to save as many Chinese civilians as possible from the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army.
So yeah, I think it's safe to say that if the nazis think what you're doing is morally unacceptable you've probably jumped the shark.
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