Absolutely horrifying. I've come to believe that criminal punishment is simply unethical. I wish someone would come up with a better option.

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pessimizer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't mind criminals being punished. This person wasn't convicted of anything, yet was still punished. This isn't criminal punishment, this is just injustice. It's also the norm, pretty much everywhere.

It's an obvious deficit in civilization itself that we can't have, or even seem to come up with, a principled justice system. We just intermittently ban specific atrocities and hope that eventually adds up to justice.

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TacticalCoder 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And what do you have to say to teenage girls or even little kid girls getting raped?

Being laxist towards criminals is not just being cruel to the victims to me: to me it is downright complicity with the criminals.

BTW: Japan happens to be one of the safest country on earth. A friend who's a pilot told me: "Tokyo is the only city in the world where I've women from my team (mostly air hostesses but also female pilot or co-pilot) go for a run at 3am". Now he didn't fly to every city in the world but I can name a great many cities where a fit woman won't go joking in yoga pants at 3am. And so can he.

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iammrpayments 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Funny you say that because if you go to shinjuku right now there will be a bunch of scouts harassing high school girls to get into prostitution to the point of even running after them, and the police doesn’t seem to care. This has been going for years.

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kulahan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Japan's judicial system has something like a 99% conviction rate. It's "safe" because they swipe up every single criminal they can, plus a bunch of random people in the process. So everyone is naturally going to be on their best behavior.

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tristanj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The claim that Japan is "safe" because it has a high conviction rate is a junk meme. The United States federal conviction rate is essentially identical to the Japanese judicial conviction rate when measured by the same methodology. It's roughly 99.6-99.8% depending on the year.

Japan is safe because of other factors, not their conviction rate.

> they swipe up every single criminal they can, plus a bunch of random people

And this is completely baseless.

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iamnothere 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly. What is it with the weird attacks on Japan here? Chinese sockpuppet accounts maybe?

	▲	tristanj 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It comes from a cursory understanding of the world outside of western countries. People watch a few videos on youtube about other countries, or visit on vacation for a week, and assume they understand the mentality of people who live there. It's hubris. Then they apply western moralities to other cultures, implicitly assuming western ideals are superior. For example, pretty much everything kulahan wrote in the grandparent comment is completely wrong and is fictitious understanding.
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		Or the common HN crowd of liberals conditioned to side with criminals.

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jesterson 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Japan appears to be safest country on earth.

There are many places women can run at 3am - Singapore, Bangkok, jut from top of my head.

And living in Tokyo, I woudn't advise any women to do jogging at 3am.

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hackyhacky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Safety is easy to achieve if you don't care about justice.