> beat the violence out of them, that'll show em?

It does in Singapore - a province and later country that was historically rife with civil, religious, ethnic, and political instability.

Westerners may not like it, but there's a reason LKY elucidated on "Asian Values" [0]. What do you care anyhow - it's not like you'd be given PR let alone citizenship.

[0] - https://time.com/archive/6732416/in-defense-of-asian-values-...

Singapore "rife with political instability"? We're talking about the same country that has been ruled uninterrupted since 1968 by same party, which has also retained an absolute supermajority in Parliament during that entire time, right?

The party line is that Singapore was a miserable fishing village before LKY & the PAP stepped into rescue it, and LKY doubled down on "Asian Values" to justify his iron-fisted rule: better not take any chances with that dangerous democracy! But in fact pre-WW2 Singapore under British rule was already a prosperous, advanced trading metropolis and widely considered the second wealthiest city in Asia after Shanghai.

Singapore signed the UN CRC Convention on the rights of the Child

So Singapore committed to protect children from violence

https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rig...

And it seems Singapore (like some other countries) struggles to figure what that actually means, come to think about it.